The marshy grasslands where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers join was the site of what biblical location?
Garden of Eden
100
This victory of western culture, thousands of years in the making, is rule by the people for the people
liberal democracy
100
The domestication of this animal occurred soon after the dawn of civilization
horse
100
The Greek name for Sumeria
Mesopotamia
200
Smaller cities such as Tal afar and Ebril have been continuously inhabited for how many years?
6,000 years
200
Although the great cities of ancient Sumeria were once surrounded by fertile plains, these soils were rendered into in infertile desert as a consequence of this human activity, done in excess
cultivation
200
This victory of western civilization excludes the intrusion of monarchs or warlords upon economics, and instead only involves the buyer and the seller.
free market
200
These human developments occurred before the dawn of civilization
agriculture and cattle/sheep domestication
200
An invention from the Greek era
water wheel
300
What were the first five civilizations to arise independently
Sumeria, Egypt, India, China, the Americas
300
This structure dates back to 5,000 BC
temple at Eridu
300
Anthropologist Michael Wood developed his series on the first civilizations to search for the first civilizations and their what?
continuing legacies
300
The iron weapons of the Greeks were superior to the weapons of the Hittites to the east, who forged their weapons from this substance.
Bronze
300
This innovation was invented by the Mesopotamians, but used widely by the Romans in designing aqueducts and buildings
the arch
400
This is the metal that humans first learned to fashion into tools and weapons
Copper
400
The oldest true city
Uruk
400
According to myth, the goddess Inanna of Eridu taught the art of civilization to men but it was this god of wisdom that created civilization
Enki
400
Any four developments during the Copper Age
Sumerian civilization, horse domestication, the wheel, the potter's wheel, written language, the sail
400
These Roman artifacts, found throughout the region of their empire today, attest to their ability to rapidly deploy military forces.
roads
500
According to anthropologist Michael Wood, what are the four questions which have concerned humanity since the dawn of civilization?
What is society for?
How should society be organized?
What are rights and freedoms?
How do rights relate to nature and spirit?
500
Sumeria occured between these two rivers
Tigris and Euphrates
500
These six Sumerian inventions are contributions to the western legacy
literature, map of the world, astronomy, clock, potter's wheel, school,
also law and science