Prehistory
What is culture?
Sharing! Human creativity, communication, social customs...
What is a city state?
A city government would rule the city as well as the land around it. These city-states often fought each other. They built walls around their cities for protection.
What is a sphinx?
Head of a man (pharaoh) with the body of a lion.
What was the Silk Road?
A system of trade networks that connected China to the rest of the world
With how many animals (dogs and cats) does Mizze live?
Eight (six cats, two doggos)
What does NAR mean?
Neolithic Agricultural Revolution
What is Hammurabi's Code?
A code of laws/rules (over 200!) that established standards and set fines/punishments to meet the requirements of justice
How did pharaohs show their power in art?
Strength (powerful bodies/positions, seriousness of features), godliness (next to gods), grand burials/grave goods
Name two things that travelled on the Silk Road.
Ideas, religion, silk/clothing, china/porcelain, people, food, medicine, art, language, communication/mail...
Mizze's favorite stuffed animal?
D.W. from the TV show, Arthur
What animals can be found in the Chauvet cave painting?
What drink was so chunky it had to be consumed using a straw?
BEER!
What about the Nile River made farming easier but life by its banks dangerous?
Cyclical flooding
The only royal tomb from the Shang Dynasty found intact belonged to whom?
Lady Fu Hao
Mizze's favorite pizza toppings?
Mushrooms and sausage. Extra cheese? Hot honey? ALL of the above.
Five characteristics of civilization?
Adv. cities, adv. technology, specialized workers, record keeping, and complex institutions.
How were men and women regarded differently in Hammurabi's Code?
Men: head of households, owners (goods and people), powerful
Women: punished more severely, lower on social hierarchy (after men and boys)
Egyptians built statues to store the ka of the dead. What is ka?
A person's essence.
Oracle bones were made from what materials? Be specific.
Primarily bovine bones and turtle shells.
Which bones has Mizze broken?
Both ankles, both wrists, her nose, a rib, and her right pinky toe.
What celebrity has an ice man tattoo?
Brad Pitt!
Who was the patron deity of Sumer?
Enki, the god of freshwater, male fertility, and knowledge.
How did the geography/geology of ancient Egypt contribute to its overall success as an empire?
Nile (transportation, food, trade, communication), rock quarries (construction, tombs, etc.), deserts (defense), proximity to other flourishing civilizations (raids, luxury goods, enslaved peoples)
What were some difficulties of traveling along the Silk Road?
White-hot sand dunes in the desert, steep and cold mountains, brutal winds, violent travelers, and poisonous snakes!
Mizze's favorite kind of cake??
CARAMEL!