Intro to World History
An ______ is any object made by humans.
artifact
A person who makes maps is a(n) _____.
cartographer
What does a primitive culture mean?
one that is simple and less advanced
The middle class of Sumerian society was made up of ____.
merchants and professionals
A ____ was a governor of a Persian province.
satrap
_____ is the story of people.
History
Which of these is best for pinpointing an exact location on a map or globe?
both longitude and latitude lines
Domesticated means _____.
tamed and kept for use by humans
Ur, Mari, and Uruk are all city-states of ____
Sumer
For what has Hammurabi become most famous?
DAILY DOUBLE
creating a code of laws
The study of people is _____.
anthropology
The historical context of an event is _____.
the setting in which the event took place
What are the 3 ages of the Three-Age System?
Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age
A religious building that was a flat-topped pyramid in the center of a city-state was a ____.
ziggurat
Ashurnasirpal built a large library in ____, which has become the source of many primary documents.
Ninevah
The study of the remains of human civilizations and cultures is _____.
archaeology
What is the equator?
an imaginary line running around the earth at the center point between the poles
Mesopotamia, where the Neolithic Revolution occurred first, is also called...
the Fertile Crescent
Which TWO rivers form Mesopotamia?
Tigris and Euphrates
The city of ____ became the mightiest city-state in all of Sumer.
Akkad
The word _____ means "about."
circa
A theme map shows ______.
special items, such as population density or agricultural production
Göbekli Tepe is home to ________, or T-shaped stone columns
menhirs
What form, other than pictographs, made up Sumerian writing?
cuneiform
Which king united Persia and built a great empire?
Cyrus the Great