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Civilization
Early Times
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Egypt
100
The terms for terms that designate societies from least complex to most complex.
What are bands, segmentary societies or tribes, chiefdoms and states, and civilizations.
100
Oldest known settlements in Mesopotamia inhabited by these people.
What are the Ubaidians.
100
Mesopotamian gods were considered this because they had the appearance and traits of human beings.
What is anthropomorphic?
100
The White and Blue Nile join here.
What is Khartoum?
100
Egypt's most revered god.
Who is Re or Ra?
200
Name two of the primary characteristics of a civilization.
What are settlement in cities, full-time specialization of labor, surplus production, class structure, and state organization (government)?
200
Greeks called it Mesopotamia for this reasons.
What is it means 'the land between two rivers'?
200
Sumerian temples were called this.
What is a ziggurat?
200
This is a simple balanced beam with a bucket at one end; it was used for lifting water out of the river into irrigation ditches.
What is a shadoof?
200
This person who unified Upper and Lower Egypt.
Who is Narmer?
300
Name three secondary characteristics.
What are monumental public works, long-distance trade, standardized monumental artwork, writing, and arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy.
300
The first sumerians used what material to build their houses.
What is reed?
300
Each ziggurat was topped with this.
What is a shrine to a god?
300
The various tribes in Egypt came to be organized into many small political districts called this.
What are nomes?
300
The symbol of the unification of the two kingdoms?
What is the double crown?
400
The difference between primary and secondary characteristics.
What is social organization and material culture?
400
Later, Sumer developed the use of this substance to make more elaborate structures.
What is clay?
400
This god is identified with the number 60.
What is Anu?
400
The differences in location and symbol of Upper and Lower Egypt.
What is Upper Egypt from Nubia to delta (falcon) while Lower Egypt is the delta area (cobra)?
400
The biggest pyramid at the time, located at Giza (or Gizeh), was built by this man.
Who is Khufu or Cheops?
500
Civitas is Latin for this.
What is city?
500
The Sumerians developed this method of writing.
What is cuneiform?
500
Mesopotamian form of government is considered this.
What is a theocracy?
500
Name the Egyptian animal god. Bonus: tell his job.
What is Anubis?
500
The Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms are associated with what ages?
What are the Pyramid, Feudal, and Empire Ages?