Early Humans
What Were the three mega-faunas?
Woolly Mammoths, Giant Ground Sloths, and Sabre Tooth Cats.
What does Mesopotamia stand for?
Land between rivers.
Were floods predictable unlike Mesopotamia or unpredictable?
Predictable.
Whose project was the great wall?
Shi Huangdi.
Who was Homer?
A Greek poet.
What cave were the handprint paintings found in?
Lascaux Cave.
What two rivers was Mesopotamia in between?
Tigris and Euphrates.
What did Anubis weigh a dead person’s heart against?
The feather of Ma'at/An ostrich feather.
How did Liu cheat the male emperors system?
She adopted infants and ruled for them.
What two sides fought in the Trojan war.
Greece and Troy.
True or false? The four cultural hearths are Banpo, Faiyum, Catalhoyuk, and Oaxaca.
True.
What is the belief in many gods called?
Polytheism.
What materials were the ancient Egyptian’s boats made out of? What was it used for?
Papyrus, load and send cargo
Who was buddha?
Siddhartha Gautama.
What is Athens' most popular temple called?
Parthenon.
What is Oaxaca's domesticated corn called?
Tesonite.
What did Sumerians do to keep the gods happy from causing natural disasters?
They paid a temple tax.
What two empires did the twelve tribes separate into?
Judah and Israel.
What are the three Chinese philosophies?
Legalism, Daoism, and Confucianism.
Who was Julius Ceaser assassinated by?
Senators.
How big are Catalhoyuk's shelters?
30 acres.
True or false? Hammurabi Made laws to keep intruders from getting into their land.
False.
What was the forced removal of one's native country called?
Exile.
What did people who practiced Buddhism believe was the cause of suffering?
Desire
What was Eris the goddess of?
Chaos.