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Neolithic Revolution
Mesopotamia
Egypt
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Other Civs
100
This enables the creation of specialized workers.
What is a surplus of food?
100
The most prominent building in a Sumerian city was a temple dedicated to the chief god or goddess of the city.
What is a ziggurat?
100
Originally meant "great house" or "palace," but came to be the name for the Egyptian leader.
What is "pharaoh?"
100
Egyptian bureaucracy is an example of this SPICE theme.
What is political?
100
These people practiced the first monotheistic religion.
Who are the Israelites?
200
These individuals presided over rituals to please the gods.
Who are priests.
200
A government run by divine authority.
What is theocracy?
200
The process of slowly drying a dead body to prevent it from rotting.
What is mummification?
200
Sumerian irrigation techniques (dams, canals, etc.) are an example of this SPICE theme.
What is interaction with environment?
200
This civilization was filled with master shipbuilders due to their frequent trade on the Mediterranean.
Who are the Phoenicians?
300
This specialized worker was responsible for recording transactions in cities.
What is a scribe?
300
These people lived just north of the Sumeriran city-states and conquered Mesopotamia under the leadership of Sargon.
Who are the Akkadians?
300
An administrative organization with officials and regular procedures.
What is a bureaucracy?
300
The EPIC of Gilgamesh is an example of this SPICE theme.
What is culture?
300
Culture during this era was centered on the importance of the family and filial piety.
What is the Shang Dynasty?
400
These specialized workers helped build temples, paint pictures, or sculpt.
Who are artists?
400
This system of justice based on retribution was promoted by the Code of Hammurabi.
What is an "eye for an eye."
400
The first king to unite upper and lower Egypt.
Who is Menes?
400
The Egyptian pyramid structure of society (pharaohs and nobles at top, farmers in the middle, slaves at the bottom) is an example of this SPICE theme.
What is social?
400
This civilization created the first alphabet.
Who are the Phoenicians?
500
A combination of copper and tin led to this metal becoming very common. We now know of the period from 3000 to 1200 BC as the __________ Age.
What is bronze?
500
This number system developed by the Mesopotamians influenced on how we keep time.
What is a number system based on 60?
500
This form of writing was a simplified version of hieroglyphics, written on papyrus, and taught by scribes to children of the upper class.
What is hieratic script?
500
Mesopotamia's vibrant trade of metals with other regions for wheat, barley, and timber is an example of this SPICE theme.
What is economy?
500
This civilization used satraps or governors to preside over 20 different provinces.
Who are the Persians?