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Chronology
100
The lack of this technology distinguishes prehistory from history.
What is writing?
100
A line of rulers from the same family.
What is a dynasty?
100
"the land between the rivers;" today the modern states of Syria and Iraq.
What is Mesopotamia?
100
The belief in many gods and goddesses
What is polytheism?
100
When the first human-like species appeared in Africa.
What is 2.5 MYA?
200
This cereal grain provides an overwhelming percentage of our daily calories and was a key to the development of civilizations.
What is wheat?
200
Codified the first set of written laws. An eye for an eye...
Who is Hammurabi?
200
This continent is where only one of the fourteen "domesticable" animals Diamond mentions is found.
What is South America?
200
The earliest form of writing known to exist in Mesopotamia. "Wedge-shaped."
What is cuneiform.
200
40,000 YBP-10,000 YBP
What is the Paleolithic Era?
300
Though possessing qualities similar to those of a horse, this animal is unfit for domestication because of it's flighty nature.
What is a zebra?
300
The anthropologist whose theory about the development of civilization is based on geographic luck.
Who is Dr. Jared Diamond?
300
The economic and political capital of Egypt at the time of Akhmose and Khamose.
What is Thebes?
300
Nefarious.
What is very wicked?
300
The Bronze Age.
What is 3,000 YBP -1,000 YBP?
400
The four factors of civilization: Social Classes, Arts and Intellectual Attitudes, ___________________ and ______________
What are Economic Specialization and Organized States?
400
The first King of Egypt and the most important god of the underworld.
Who is Osiris?
400
A cave in Northern Spain where cave drawings were found by an amateur archaeologist.
What is Altamira?
400
Sumerian temples
What is ziggurat?
400
The Early European Modern Human who appeared 43,000 YBP.
What is Cromagnon?
500
These food staples of Papua New Guinea are labor intensive to cultivate, do not store well and are low in nutrients, especially protein. (Name one)
What are Sago, Taro and Banana?
500
The arch demon serpent of the Egyptian afterlife.
Who is Apophis?
500
The Eqyptian capital city in the desert built by pharaoh Amenhotep IV, which was abandoned after his death.
What is Amarna?
500
Ornithology
What is the study of birds?
500
When Louis Lartet discovered the remains of the EEMH in France at Abri du Cromagnon.
What is 1867?