Characteristics of Civilizations
The earliest writing in Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
This cultural group invades Egypt during the second intermediate period.
Who are the Hyksos?
This is how Diamond characterized the origins of agriculture.
What is the worst mistake in the history of the human race?
Nubian civilizations at the site of Meroe exploited this river.
What is the Nile?
The pyramids of Egypt were built during this period.
What is the Old Kingdom?
What archaeologists call the origins of agriculture.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
Define the acronym - UNESCO
What is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization?
Two key early domesticated plant species within the Fertile Crescent
What are wheat and barley?
Mesopotamia means "the land between the rivers". Name those two rivers.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
This actor plays the mummy in the 1932 version of the film.
Who is Boris Karloff?
Rather than the term "civilization", archaeologists use this term.
What is complex society?
An archaeological culture of the Levant, dating to around 15,000 to 11,500 years ago
Who are the Natufians?
This is the rather simple irrigation technique used in ancient Egypt.
What is basin irrigation?
The area of the Nile Delta.
What is Lower Egypt?
Weekly quizzes are due no later than (day and time).
What is Saturday at end of day (11:59pm)?
Writing initially developed in Mesopotamia to do this.
What is record economic transactions?
The process by which colonizing powers and indigenous people influence one another and change over time.
What is entanglement?
Corn is domesticated in this region.
What is Mesoamerica?
The construction of this dam in the 1960s submerged hundreds of archaeological sites and displaced thousands of people in Sudan.
Dr. Arnold was called this every day by her Sudanese interpreter.
What is beautiful, fat woman?
The stelae at Aksum mark these structures.
What are rock-cut tombs?
The first African civilization to mint their own coinage.
Who are the Aksumites?
The main (and really only) large animal domesticated in the Americas is
What is the llama?
This is the site of the burial of the first Nubian pharoahs.
What is el Kurru?
Popularization of the theory of alien architects as having a basis in science is based on this book by Erich van Däniken.
What is Chariots of the Gods?