What were the three bases for a counting system at Uruk?
What is 60, 30, and 120
100
Which state in Africa produced the first coinage?
What is Egypt
100
Writing systems in Egypt and Mesopotamia:
a. Were independent inventions
b. Developed at the same time
c. Spread from Mesopotamia to Egypt
d. Spread from Egypt to Mesopotamia.
What is a. Were independent inventions.
They did NOT develop at the same time
They did NOT spread from one site to the other.
100
Which specific pottery bore stamping similar to Body Tattooing?
What is Lapita Pottery
100
What is the wild ancestor of Corn?
What is Teosinte
200
Which things could have been used to make a burrito in central Mexico by 500 bc? And what could not have been used?
bean, cheese, wheat, corn, tomatoes, and chiles
What is bean, corn, tomatoes, and chiles
200
What do tells signify archaeologically?
What is They signify occupational longevity.
200
Microliths were characteristic of which stone tool industry in Africa?
What is the Wilton stone tool industry.
200
Paijan groups of Peru focused their subsistence on what resources?
What is Marine animals
200
What was the first use of iron in Africa?
What is the creation of ritual artifacts
300
Agriculturalists in Australia during the 15th century:
a. Focused on the cultivation of millet
b. Relied on a complex irrigation system
c. Practiced crop rotation to avoid the depletion of soil nutrients.
d. There were not agricultural groups in Australia at this time
What is D. There were not agricultural groups in Australia at this time
When did agriculture first appear in Australia?
300
What are cemeteries evidence of in Mesolithic Europe?
What is they provide evidence for the presence of larger, more complex social groups in Mesolithic Europe.
300
The Chinchorro mummies were found on what continent?
What is South America
300
Who was the Egyptian pharaoh who tried to impose a new religion on Egypt?
What is Akhenaton
300
What was extensively traded and used to mark prestige throughout Neolithic Europe and were important both for the appearance of their material and their technical properties?
What is Axes
400
What is Easter Island known for?
What is massive stone statues (possibly representing former chiefs)
400
Which system of writing consisted of wedge-shaped signs made by a stylus on prepared clay tablets?
What is Cuneiform
400
What rivers provided evidence for the foundation of farming in Mesopotamia?
What is the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
400
What site is the most famous example of a Neolithic monument constructed of megalithic slabs?
a. Stonehenge
b. Cahokia
c. Talheim
d. Aksum
What is Stonehenge
400
Who is best known for their law code, the first known example of such from ancient SW Asia?
What is Hammurabi of Babylon (1792-1750 BC)
500
What is significant about the site Olsen-Chubbuck in North America?
What is it contains evidence of bison hunting on the plains of North America.
500
What is significant about Uruk?
What is It was the first genuine city.
500
Who stopped fishing in 1800 BC?
What is the Tasmanians!
500
Feasting and Mortuary rituals in Mesolithic sites on the Atlantic coast of Europe are linked to what?
What is Shell middens.
500
What is the homeland from which the Austronesian languages spread throughout the Pacific?