UT High School World History A Final Exam Thorough Review with complete solution
Pre-history ✔✔ the period of time before written records
Lucy ✔✔ 3.2 million year old skeleton found in Africa by Donald Johanser
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UT High School World History A Final Exam Thorough Review with complete solution
Pre-history ✔✔ the period of time before written records
Lucy ✔✔ 3.2 million year old skeleton found in Africa by Donald Johanser
The pre-history people were this ✔✔ Hunter-gatherers (nomadic)
Stone Age ✔✔ When people began using bone and stone tools
Archaeology ✔✔ Study of past human material remains
Anthropology ✔✔ Study of human society, culture, and development
Humans originated from here ✔✔ Africa (eastern + southern)
Bipedalism ✔✔ Ability to walk on two legs
Neolithic Revolution ✔✔ (10,000 - 8,000 BC) When humans began using agriculture and domesticating animals
What makes a civilization? (8) ✔✔ (1) government
(2) religion
(3) social classes
(4) arts
(5) cities
(6) specialization
(7) writing
(8) infrastructure
What led to social classes? ✔✔ Specialization of labor
How did the Neolithic revolution contribute to the rise of civilizations? ✔✔ Agriculture caused families to grow into tribes which grew into civilizations
Economics ✔✔ How we consume, produce, and manage goods and services
Economic progression is often tied to this ✔✔ Societal growth and imperial expansion
Early specializations of labor (4) (social classes formed from these) ✔✔ (1) Farmer
(2) Warrior
(3) Religious leader
(4) Artisan
Writing is important to civilization for these reasons (4) ✔✔ (1) Codification of laws
(2) Record-keeping
(3) Birth of literature
(4) Sharing of culture
Social Class ✔✔ How people are divided by income and labor
The River Valley Civilizations were located here ✔✔ Rivers valleys in Africa and Asia
Dynasty ✔✔ A family of rulers
Cuneiform ✔✔ the world's first system of writing (from the Middle East)
Metallurgy ✔✔ the science of working with metals
Polytheism ✔✔ Belief in many gods
Sanskrit ✔✔ Language of ancient India
Theocracy ✔✔ A government controlled by religious leaders
Ziggurat ✔✔ Mesopotamian temple tower
The major River Valley Regions (4) ✔✔ (1) Egypt (Nile)
(2) Mesopotamia (Tigris-Euphrates)
(3) India (Indus)
(4) China (Yangtze)
Fertile Crescent (Mesopotamia) ✔✔ Between Tigris/Euphrates in modern Iraq
Advancements of Mesopotamia (6) ✔✔ (1) Irrigation
(2) Drainage
(3) Wheel
(4) Sail
(5) Plow
(6) Writing
Sumerians may have come from this region ✔✔ Caucasus Mountain Region
Sumerian Government ✔✔ Theocracy
Sumerian Religion ✔✔ Polytheism
Sumerian writing system ✔✔ Cuneiform
Sumerian Social Classes (7) ✔✔ (1) Royals
(2) Officials
(3) Priests
(4) Scribes
(5) Merchants
(6) Peasants
(7) Slaves
Legal code (criminal and civil law) was created by this empire ("eye for an eye") ✔✔ Babylonian Empire
Babylonian Kings (3) ✔✔ (1) Hammurabi
(2) Cyrus
(3) Darius
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