Ch. 1 Topics
Eridu, Ur, Uruk, Lagash, Nippur, and Kish were all associated with:
What is Mesopotamia?
The largest Egyptian pyramids were built during the:
What is the Old Kingdom period?
In China, the Shang kings were strengthened by their control over this technological advantage:
What is bronze?
San Lorenzo, La Venta, and Tres Zapotes were ceremonial centers of which early Mesoamerican civilization?
Who are the Olmec?
This "cult" existed in the area occupied by modern day Peru:
What is the Chavin cult?
Which can be best credited for the expansion of Homo sapiens communities throughout the world during the Ice Age?
What are land bridges?
Around 3100 B.C.E., the conqueror Menes founded this city that would serve as the capital for early Egypt.
What is Memphis?
Two especially prominent cities of the first Indian society were:
What are Harappa and Mohenjo-daro?
The most characteristic artistic creations of the Olmecs were:
What are colossal human heads sculpted from basalt?
One of the earliest Andean states, which left a remarkable artistic legacy through its ceramics, was:
What is the Mochica state?
Catal Huyuk is significant because it:
What is, it is one of the first cities?
How were horse-drawn chariots and bronze weapons introduced into Egypt?
What is, by the Hyksos after they conquered Egypt?
This emperor destroyed many of the works of ancient Chinese literature that came from the Zhou era.
Who is the Qin?
They were the earliest Austronesian migrants to establish human settlements in the Pacific islands:
Who are the Lapita peoples?
Austronesian-speaking peoples became the first human settlers on which large island off the east African coast?
What is Madagascar?
The most influential ancient Indo-European migrants in southwest Asia (Anatolia) were the:
Who are the Hittites?
As early as 3000 B.C.E., these peoples began to spread their language and agricultural techniques throughout central and southern Africa:
Who are the Bantu?
The Aryans of India referred to one's social class by this term (1) and one's occupational subcaste by this term (2):
What is varna and jati?
Ritual bloodletting was crucial to Maya rituals because:
What is, it was associated with rain and agriculture?
The most important political center of the Maya realm at its height was:
What is Tikal?
What are two ways that the Neolithic era (New Stone Age) was different from the Paleolithic era (Old Stone Age)?
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Harkhuf was:
What is an Egyptian explorer who visited Nubia?
What was one advantage and one disadvantage of the caste system?
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Malayan, Indonesian, Filipino, Polynesian, and other Oceanic languages are derived from what language?
What is Austronesian?
What are two reasons that caused the societies of the Americas and Oceania to be so different from other societies studied so far?
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