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| 4799838731 | Who were the 3 rulers of Mesopotamia in order? | Gilgamesh, Sargon, Hammurabi | 0 | |
| 4799847024 | What was Gilgamesh known for? | The Epic of Gilgamesh | 1 | |
| 4799849338 | What did Gilgamesh want? | Gilgamesh wanted immortality. He didn't want to die. He wanted to live forever. Eventually he realized that death was something he would have to face and he was scared of it. | 2 | |
| 4799853804 | What did Gilgamesh build? | City walls around Mesopotamia. | 3 | |
| 4799854996 | What was the Epic of Gilgamesh about? | It was about Gilgamesh trying to save the city. | 4 | |
| 4799856593 | How long did Gilgamesh rule for? | From about 3200 to 2350 B.C.E. | 5 | |
| 4799862909 | What was Hammurabi known for? | Hammurabi's code (code of law) | 6 | |
| 4799865960 | Where is this quote from : "an eye for an eye" | Hammurabi's code | 7 | |
| 4799867226 | Why was the Hammurabi's code written? | It was written for control, organization, and it allowed them to function properly. | 8 | |
| 4799870355 | Who couldn't read the Hammurabi's code? | The lower class struggled. | 9 | |
| 4799874014 | How long did Hammurabi rule for? | From about 1792 to 1750 B.C.E. | 10 | |
| 4799876013 | What was Sargon known for? | Sargon extended a lot of the Mesopotamian territory and was the first empire to control ALL of Mesopotamia. He created the first empire. | 11 | |
| 4799882009 | How long did Sargon rule for? | From about 2370 to 2315 B.C.E. | 12 | |
| 4799883697 | What was the political structure in Mesopotamia? | Kings, nobles, knights warriors, merchants, commoners, slaves. | 13 | |
| 4799886284 | What was the infrastructure for Mesopotamia? | They used clay bricks, built ziggurats, had mud roads, and dug canals for irrigation. | 14 | |
| 4799888937 | What was Mesopotamia was surrounded by? What was the effect? | Rivers, so it always flooded. | 15 | |
| 4799891393 | True or False: Mesopotamia was easily invaded. | True because it was surrounded by "open land" | 16 | |
| 4799893433 | What were the Mesopotamians religious beliefs? | The believed in multiple gods, believed demons were good or bad, and that their behaviors influenced gods. They also didn't believe in afterlife. | 17 | |
| 4799900544 | Who did the Mesopotamians believe in? | They believed that spirits were in nature such as rocks, trees, and mountains. They were monotheists. | 18 | |
| 4799915222 | What was the artwork of the Mesopotamians like? | They liked to make sculptures that were always facing either sideways or forward. They also painted murals and built ziggurats. | 19 | |
| 4799919661 | What is a ziggurat? | A ziggurat is a type of building that is used to worship gods. Priests often live here. | 20 | |
| 4799923215 | Where is Mesopotamia located? | It is located in Modern Iran. | 21 | |
| 4799924878 | What problems did Mesopotamia have with the Tigris and Euphrates river and what was their solution? | Both rivers were unpredictable, so they didn't know when it was going to flood. They built canals to control water and irrigate fields. | 22 | |
| 4799954404 | Was Mesopotamia a peaceful or violent civilization? | Violent | 23 | |
| 4799958188 | What was Mesopotamia's writing style and what was it's purpose? | Their writing style was cuneiform and it was wedged. It's purpose was to keep tabs on taxes and people. | 24 | |
| 4799964318 | What was Nile Civilization also called? | Egypt | 25 | |
| 4799972195 | Who were the rulers of the Nile Civilization? | Queen Hatshepsut who ruled with her step-son Tuthmosis III. They ruled from 1473-1458 B.C.E. This was unfamiliar because woman was ruling so they built a statue or her. | 26 | |
| 4800014664 | How were the Pharaohs looked as? | They were gods on Earth so people praised them and buried them in tombs when they died. | 27 | |
| 4800021432 | What was Egypt/The Nile Civilization's political structure? | They had small kingdoms. The were kings at top, then scribes, nobles, commoners, and lastly slaves. | 28 | |
| 4800024530 | What was the Nile Civilization's infrastructure? | Floods were the only way to grow crops. They had irrigations for floods. They would grow crops when the Nile River over flowed. | 29 | |
| 4800030114 | Why was the Nile Civilization harder to invade? | The were surrounded by deserts. | 30 | |
| 4800031585 | Which way did the Nile River flow? | It flowed north and the wind flowed south. | 31 | |
| 4800033609 | True or False: The Nile was extremely fertile. | True. | 32 | |
| 4800037804 | Mesopotamia had a lot of cities, Egypt had a lot of _________ | Villages. | 33 | |
| 4800042270 | What were the Nile Civilization's religious beliefs about Gods? | They believed that the gods were responsible for the cultivation of crops. If you worshipped the Gods, than your crops would be good. | 34 | |
| 4800050525 | What was the mortal life to Egyptians? | They thought that their mortal life was their journey to their eternal life. | 35 | |
| 4800063662 | What were the Egyptians obsessed with that the Mesopotamians weren't? | Afterlife. | 36 | |
| 4800066798 | What were mummies and what civilization were they part of? | Mummies were people (mainly pharaohs) that were mummified and preserved after death. Egyptians mainly did this. | 37 | |
| 4800072999 | Who would weigh and judge your heart in the Egyptian civilization? | Osiris. | 38 | |
| 4800077720 | What did they put in tombs for mummies? | They would put jewelry and goods for you to have in your afterlife. | 39 | |
| 4800086553 | What was the architecture of the Egyptians civilization like? | It was structurally sounded because of the bedrock. They were an agricultural based society. They built a lot of pyramids. | 40 | |
| 4800096621 | What was the artwork of the Egyptian like? | They used charcoal and iron for decorations and paintings for pharaohs. They also built wooden statues. They painted murals and created temples and pyramids. | 41 | |
| 4800104251 | What type of writing did the Egyptians use and for what did they use it? | They used Hieroglyphics for math and medicine. | 42 | |
| 4800105842 | What kind of paper did the Egyptians use? | They used papyrus. | 43 | |
| 4800111804 | What was the Book of the Dead and what civilization did it belong to? | The Book of the Dead was a "book" inside of the mummy's tomb and it was about their journey to the afterlife. | 44 | |
| 4800115510 | What was one of the biggest jobs in the Egyptian civilization? | Being a scribe. | 45 | |
| 4800121514 | Who were the significant rulers of the Indus River Valley? | They didn't really have rulers, so their "rulers" were the priests. | 46 | |
| 4800123817 | What were the two major cities of the Indus River Valley? | Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro | 47 | |
| 4800142305 | What was the political structure of the Indus River Valley? | Those who had a two story house and a court yard were upper class (priests) | 48 | |
| 4800155841 | What was unique about the Aryan caste system? | It was based around religion, if you behave good on Earth you MIGHT move up in the social class. India didn't have a lot of a political system because people knew where they stood and it worked. | 49 | |
| 4800162226 | What was the infrastructure of the Indus River Valley? | They had sewage systems and a grid system. | 50 | |
| 4800164513 | What were the Indus River Valley religious beliefs? | They had a public bath which they used not only for a pool, but for religious beliefs. They believed that this public bath would cleanse them and clean them. | 51 | |
| 4800172564 | What was the artwork of the Indus River Valley like? | They had a famous figurine of a dancing girl. They also has a famous Haraba sculpture. They used seals for trading too. | 52 | |
| 4800176731 | What was the architecture of the Indus River Valley like? | They had city planning, which was houses on roads. They had a grid like planning (grid system). They also had sailboats on the Arabian Sea. | 53 | |
| 4800182084 | What kind of literature did the Indus River Valley have? | They had Vedas which were poems for the Gods. The Aryans wrote them. | 54 | |
| 4800185586 | Where was the Shang/Zhou dynasty located? | East Asia. | 55 | |
| 4800187703 | Who were the rulers of the Shang/Zhou dynasty? | ? | 56 | |
| 4800197802 | What was the political structure of the Shang/Zhou dynasty like? | They would send subordinates out to rule certain regions because it was a large region. This meant they had to trust the subordinates. They were decentralized, so they depended on their kingdom to take care of the other regions. | 57 | |
| 4800203717 | What was the Shang/Zhou dynasty political system in order? | King, warriors or priests, commoners, and slaves. | 58 | |
| 4800256719 | What spread throughout China during the the Shang/Zhou dynasty and what was its advantages? | Bronze spread and it allowed them to make weapons and tools for farming. | 59 | |
| 4800265746 | How big was the Shang/Zhou dynasty on trading? | They traded far distances (over water maybe). They weren't a heavy trading civilization because they were isolated. | 60 | |
| 4800272708 | What were the Shang/Zhou dynasty religious beliefs? | They believed that the world was divided into 3 tears, heaven, earth, and underworld. The also did Veneration of ancestors which was when they asked their ancestors for help, wisdom, to watch over the people on earth, and guide them. They would put out food, wine, and stuff for their ancestors. This religious performance is still used today. | 61 | |
| 4800273829 | What was the Mandate of Heaven? | It was a law of the Shang/Zhou realm that if everything is well balanced, the ruler would continue to rule. But if things got bad, they would have to put a new ruler in charge. | 62 | |
| 4800290004 | What was the artwork of the Shang/Zhou dynasty like? | They would create oracle bones, bronze vessels, and the Book of Songs | 63 | |
| 4800293399 | What were oracle bones and who used them? | Oracle bones were a religious performance that the Shang/Zhou dynasty would use. They would write a question on a turtle shell or sheep bone, heat it up, and the viners would read/predict the future using the cracks on it. Sometimes they read lies to the rulers like "you are the most powerful ruler" to suck up to them. | 64 | |
| 4800304569 | What was the Shang/Zhou dynasty writing system like? | They used pictographs as a writing system. | 65 | |
| 4800308540 | What are bronze vessels and what dynasty used them? | Bronze vessels were a vase like structure the Shang/Zhou dynasty used. | 66 | |
| 4800313756 | What was the Book of Songs and which civilization used it? | The Book of Songs were songs that had to do with the Shang/Zhou dynasty everyday life. | 67 | |
| 4800325090 | Who were the significant leaders of the Olmec and Toltec civilization? | ? | 68 | |
| 4800335874 | What was the political structure of the Olmec and Toltec civilization? | Priests, warriors, merchants, artisans, commoners, and slaves. | 69 | |
| 4800344980 | What was the infrastructure of the Olmec and Toltec civilization like? | They built pyramids to represent volcanos and would do human sacrifices in them. They grew grains (corn/maize) and had an area in the city to trade. | 70 | |
| 4800352558 | What was the artwork of the Olmec and Toltec civilization like? | They made giant heads that stood about 11 feet tall. These heads represented gods or rulers. They were all hand carved and they were called Basalt Heads. | 71 | |
| 4800363210 | What was the architecture of the Olmec and Toltec civilization like? | They would use lateral symmetry | 72 | |
| 4800373128 | What were the religious beliefs of the Olmec and Toltec civilization? | They would do human sacrifices for rain from the Gods. They were polytheistic. | 73 | |
| 4800378778 | What didn't the Olmecs and Toltecs have? | They didn't have big animals so they depended on trade and growing grains. | 74 | |
| 4800381550 | How was everything done in the Olmec and Toltec civilization? | Everything was done by labor. | 75 | |
| 4800388322 | What did the Olmec and Toltec civilization create? | They created the Mayan calendar. | 76 | |
| 4800390431 | Who didn't have contact with Mesoamerica? | The Chavin Civilization. | 77 | |
| 4800392558 | Who were the Bantu civilization? | They spread to all of Africa and spread iron and agriculture techniques, as well as over 500 languages. Spread to all different places. Took centuries to migrate and spread their ways because they spread in small groups all over Africa. | 78 | |
| 4800401483 | Why did human beings leave Africa? | There was no more food. | 79 | |
| 4800402103 | Who were the Hittites? | They were the first to create and spread iron tools for weapons and agriculture. They were an aggressive empire. They also created spokes wheels for better speed and stability for chariots. | 80 | |
| 4800410901 | Who were the Phoenicians? | They created the 'modern' day alphabet which spread to Greece and Rome where people perfected it. They also were known for dye and trading. | 81 | |
| 4800420910 | True or False: The Phoenicians were a trading civilization. | True | 82 | |
| 4800425190 | Were the Phoenicians peaceful or violent? | They were a peaceful civilizations, they only wanted to trade. | 83 | |
| 4800439475 | Who were the Hebrews? | They kept getting pushed out and they come back and it was back and forth. They were Monotheistic, which was different than people around them (they believed in one god). | 84 |
