Week 1 & 2
Neolithic & Mesopotamia
Neolithic & Mesopotamia
This concept explains the use of pictograms for early writing systems.
What is the Rebus Principle?
This pharaoh was perhaps the son of Akhenaten and is famous b/c his tomb was found intact.
Who is Tutankhamun?
Who are the Sea Peoples?
This food served as the staple in early China.
What is rice?
This species of insect is responsible for Sleeping Sickness in central Africa.
The tse-tse fly
This event (occurring around 10,000 BCE in SW Asia) is credited as the moment that human societies discovered agriculture.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
The priestly class of this popular Egyptian deity was attacked by Akhenaten during the Amarna Revolution.
Who is Amun?
This region of SW Asia formed the borderland between New Kingdom Egypt and the Hittites during the Amarna Period.
This semi-mythical period was seen as the earliest dynasty of Chinese history by later chroniclers. We have no concrete evidence that this dynasty ever existed.
What is the Xia Dynasty?
This superarea in the Western Hemisphere was likely the cultural group that domesticated maize.
Mesoamerica
The name of this Greek Goddess was used to describe a common form of Paleolithic statue (found mostly in northern Europe).
Who is Venus (Venus Statues)?
This Egyptian deity was the lord of the dead and thought to judge recently deceased souls on their journey to the afterlife.
Who is Osiris?
This principle of cosmic chaos/order was used to justify the rule of the pharaohs.
This city was the largest of the Indus River towns and contained infrastructure for sophisticated sewage management and ensuring personal hygiene.
What is Mohenjo-Daro?
This linguistic group spent centuries migrating throughout central and southern Africa, making their language group the predominant language family of Sub-Saharan Africa.
The Bantu people
This figure was seen as both the goddess of love and war in Mesopotamian societies.
Who is Ishtar (Inanna)?
This monstrous creature was the adversary faced by Gilgamesh and Enkidu in Lebanon.
Who is Humbaba?
This Canaanite city (allied w/ the Hittites) was an early victim of the Late Bronze Age collapse, the fate of which is preserved in Akkadian letters.
What is Ugarit?
What is divination?
This master of the Warring States Period continued the philosophical work of Confucius.
Who is Xunzi?
This family of powerful Mesopotamian deities was seen as descended from the god An (Anu) and as rulers of the universe.
Who are the Anunnaki?
This pharaoh is credited with building the largest pyramid at Giza during Egypt's Old Kingdom.
This monument was built to commemorate Egypt's defeat of the Sea Peoples in the Nile River Delta.
What is Medinet Habu?
This period at the close of the Zhou Dynasty preceded the Warring States Period.
What is the Spring and Autumn Period?
This ruler ended the Warring States Period, supported Legalism, and founded the Chinese Empire.
Who is Qin Shi Huang?