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Paleolithic, Neolithic or Early Civilizations
Keys to Civilization
Sumer/Egypt
Greece
Types of Government
100
Job Specialization
What is Early Civilization?
100
Inventions or innovations that make life easier.
What is TECHNOLOGY?
100
The real name for an Egyptian king.
What is PHARAOH?
100
He believed that the "Unexamined life was not worth living." Liked to ask "why?"
Who was SOCRATES?
100
Rule by a few. Example: Sparta
What is OLIGARCHY?
200
Burial of dead
What is the Paleolithic Era?
200
A system of trading goods among different towns or regions.
What is economics?
200
The earliest recorded writing system in World History, used by Sumerians.
What is CUNEIFORM?
200
An organized system or rational thought. Thinking about thinking.
What is PHILOSOPHY?
200
Rule by the people. Example: Athens.
What is DEMOCRACY?
300
Hunters and Gatherers
What is the Paleolithic Era?
300
A culture which has attained a degree of complexity usually characterized by urban life.
What is CIVILIZATION?
300
An example of a code of laws, these were established in Mesopotamia and posed strict, but not always fair, consequences for crimes.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
300
Author of the "Republic", believed that rulers should be motivated not by power alone, but by power brought through wisdom.
Who is Plato?
300
Rule by religious authority.
What is THEOCRACY?
400
Innovations: Agriculture and animal domestication
What is the Neolithic Era?
400
These two things allow for human expression, while also represent such factors in civilization as job specialization and free time.
What are MUSIC and ART?
400
A stepped-pyramid used as a temple in Sumer.
What is a ZIGGURAT?
400
He believed that the secrets of the world could be discovered through observation. Theorized that the Sun revolves around the Earth.
Who is Aristotle?
400
Rule by one.
What is MONARCHY?
500
Decline in the status of women.
What is the Neolithic Era?
500
A belief system in a higher power.
What is RELIGION?
500
Mesopotamia means "the land between the rivers." Which two rivers is the name referring to?
What are the TIGRIS and the EUPHRATES?
500
He believed that there was math all around us. Don't even get me started about the dude's triangles.
Who is Pythagoras?
500
From Greece, this "city-state" is the most basic unit of government. Examples: Athens, Sparta, Thebes.
What is POLIS?