10488718854 | attributes of civilization | Organized central government Job specilization Complex religions Cities Public works Writing and art | 0 | |
10488718855 | Sumer organization comparison to egypt | Sumer-competing city states Egypt-united under one pharaoh | 1 | |
10488718856 | Quipu | System of noted rope used for accounting purposes (note Chico) | 2 | |
10488718857 | Indus valley | Present day Pakistan birthed civilizations | 3 | |
10488718858 | irrigation | A way of supplying water to an area of land | 4 | |
10488718859 | Aspects of early Indus civilization | Elaborately planned cities No palaces or temples Ceremonial bathing Ritual burning Elephant in religious | 5 | |
10488718860 | 3 Chinese dynasties | Zhou 700-1000 Shang 1000-1500 Xia 1500-2200 | 6 | |
10488718861 | Son of Heaven | Title of the ruler of China, first known from the Zhou dynasty. It acknowledges the ruler's position as intermediary between heaven and earth. | 7 | |
10488718862 | Oracle Bones | Where the earliest forms of Chinese bones where found used to help gov or predict future | 8 | |
10488718863 | Oxus valley | Present day Afghanistan or Turkmenistan | 9 | |
10488718864 | What was the Oxus valley the focus of | Eurasian-wide system of intellectual and cultural exchange with Chinese,Indian,and Mesopotamian,civilizations as well as pastoral nomads of the steppe lands and forest dwellers of Siberia | 10 | |
10488718865 | Olmecs | Located coast of guel Mexico in Veracruz in southern Mexico | 11 | |
10488718866 | Cultural patterns the olmecs developed that they passed down to other Mesopotamian cultures | Mound building Art styles Urban planning Game with rubber ball Ritual sacrifices Blood letting | 12 | |
10488718867 | Uruk | 20ft walls, 50,000 people in 3000b.c.e, temples of rituals and food distributions crafts people and beuracrats | 13 | |
10488718868 | Ziggurat | Stepped pyramid | 14 | |
10488718869 | Epic of Gilgamesh | Ancient Mesopotamian poem | 15 | |
10488718870 | Mohenjo-Daro | Indus River, 2000BCE, with 40,000 people | 16 | |
10488718871 | Harappa | Another Indus Valley river city | 17 | |
10488718872 | Characterize cultural traits of Harappa and mohenjo daro | Organized Clean indoor plumbing | 18 | |
10488718873 | Where the institutions of teotihuccan similar or different than those of indus | Larger but similar Works apart from wealth Large citadel | 19 | |
10488718874 | social heiarchies | Upper class, free commoners (support upper), slaves(sold, work, sacrifice) | 20 | |
10488718875 | Code of Hammurabi | Collection of 282 laws; consequences according to social status | 21 | |
10488718876 | Characterization of slavery in Mesopotamia egypt and Greek and Roman society | M Many slaves and they where militarized E Fewer slaves women had rights to own slaves GR slaves much more common than Indian and Chinese culture | 22 | |
10488718877 | Jobs and social roles of women in ancient societies | Jobs Raising kids slaves and concubines Social roles Mother,wife,controlled sexuality | 23 | |
10488718878 | Ishtar | Goddess in Mesopotamia (not replaced by male god) | 24 | |
10488718879 | Hatashepsut | Egyptian queen depicted with beard | 25 | |
10488718880 | Consensual and coercive aspects of ancient societies | Consensual aspects Kings gave gifts Coercive aspects Marriage, hemorabi, sacrifices | 26 | |
10488718881 | scribe | a person who writes things down | 27 | |
10488718882 | Summarize chart | Sumer- cuneiform, Records of economic transactions, first written language Egypt-hieroglyphs, every day use Andes-Kiku, accounting maybe used to express words, no written language Indus-pictures representing sounds in words, marking merchandise, undecifierd China-Oracle bones script, government or predicting future, where we get contemporary Chinese characters Olmec-signs that represents sounds, recorded battles, shamans, rulers, calendars were highly accurate | 28 | |
10488718883 | Qin Shihuangdi | 1st emporer of china( controlled writing and readers) killed scholars | 29 | |
10488718884 | 17of these huge heads have been found in Mexico what was their purpose | To represent royal rulers | 30 | |
10488718885 | Purpose of Tikal temples | To commemorate the jaguar | 31 |
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