Misc.
The wall of Jericho was first constructed during a period which archaeologists refer to as...
What is the pre-pottery neolithic A (PPNA)
The tomb of Queen Puabi is located here.
What is the royal cemetery of Ur?
This is considered the first true city in the world
What is Uruk?
This was the capital of Lower Egypt?
What is Memphis?
The correct order (earliest to latest) for state formation in the civilizations we have studied so far is this..
What is Mesopotamian, Egyptian and Harappan?
This site had house walls decorated with painted murals of cattle, hunting, decapitated human bodies, vultures, and volcanic eruptions.
What is Catal Huyuk
This Mesopotamian period saw the development of complex chiefdoms with 3-tiered settlement hierarchy, t-shaped temples at impressive sites like Eridu and Ur
What is the Ubaid Period?
This legendary ruler of Uruk who was immortalized in mythology is said to have defeated the city of Kish in 2750 B.C.
Who is Gilgamesh?
This Egyptian period saw the use of the tomb/temple structure known as a Mastaba.
What is the Early Dynastic Period ?
Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Harappan societies were constrained by their geographic locations - another term for this condition is this
What is circumscription/environmental circumscription?
This archaeologist excavated Jericho over seven field seasons, from 1952 to 1958, transformed our thinking about the nature of Neolithic communities at the same time they documented the sequence from Neolithic all the way down to the Iron Age
Who is Kathleen Kenyon?
This Mesopotamian culture was known as the first complex society in the region with the first known use of irrigation and its T-shaped temples
What is the Samarra Culture?
Early writing in lower Mesopotamia focused on primarily on this topic
Economic transactions and record keeping.
This pyramid indicates an engineering disaster due to the collapse of the building during its construction.
What is the pyramid at Medium?
This Harappan City is known for its early use of sewer systems, its grided streets and it's "great bath"
What is Mohenjo-Daro?
There are sites found in places where people lived for thousands of years – sites that have built up of artifacts/trash and mud bricks which has broken down – look like hills
What are tell-sites?
A key-hole shaped building from the Halaf Culture in Upper Mesopotamia.
What is a tholos?
This British archaeologist discovered the Royal Cemetery of Ur
Who is Sir Leonard Woolley?
In the article "A Scientist looks at the Pyramids," Kurt Mendelssohn argues that once a bureaucracy was formed to manage the building of the large pyramids, workers began to be redirected to other state projects, he attritubes this pyramid's size as signaling this
What is the Menkaure pyramid?
Important pre-Harappan site occupied from 6500-2000 BC, despite being considered a large archaeological site, is not considered a city.
What is Mehrgarh?
Karl Wittfogel and Julian Steward suggest this innovation as well as the management of it was key for the rise of Sumerian
What is irrigation?
A small tell village site in northern (upper) Mesopotamia dating to about 6000 B.C.
What is Hassuna?
Led by Sargon the Great, this empire conquered all of Sumer in 2371 BCE
What is the Akkadian Empire?
This pyramid is considered the first of the Egyptian pyramids
What is Zoser's pyramid?
Harrappan Socieities created a standardized system of these to ensure consistency in trade and administration.
What are weights