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| 4837618793 | What are 5 major regions of the world? | Americas, Asia, Africa, Oceania and Europe | 0 | |
| 4837628313 | use of stone tools | accomplishment of paleolithic age | 1 | |
| 4837630484 | tamed dog, invented hunting tools | accomplishment of paleolithic age | 2 | |
| 4837631989 | developed language and fire | accomplishment of paleolithic age | 3 | |
| 4837636281 | 2.5 million to 8000 BCE | Paleolithic age | 4 | |
| 4837634113 | significance of Neolithic revolution | agricultural revolution domestication of cattle, goats, sheep and pigs food surplus allowed villages connected by road developed unity and culture tech improved-wheels and sails change transportation | 5 | |
| 4837645426 | 8000-3000 BCE | Neolithic age | 6 | |
| 4837657106 | Fertile Cresent | location of first agricultural villages | 7 | |
| 4837664531 | exception to 1st villages being agricultural | southern Japan some among the Jamon people formed an economic base of hunting and gathering | 8 | |
| 4837668651 | Characteristics of civilization | 1. Urban centers (trade) 2.Specialized workers 3. Complex installations: political/ economic/ religious 4. record keeping 5. advanced tech *irrigation | 9 | |
| 4837679453 | where did civilization first appear | Mesopotamia, egypt, indus valley, china, mesoamerica, south america, niger river valley | 10 | |
| 4837712639 | Where is Sumer? | lower part of valley (Persian Gulf) emerged in 3000 BCE | 11 | |
| 4837715915 | What was ancient Sumers writing system? | Cuneiform-pressed marks into clay tablets | 12 | |
| 4837719443 | What were Sumer's city's like? | City states, ruled by priests and frequently warred | 13 | |
| 4837722701 | 3 primary sumer city states | Ur, Urak, and Kisk functioned independently | 14 | |
| 4837729059 | Social classes | Top, middle and bottom | 15 | |
| 4837732497 | When did military leaders take control in sumer | 3000 BCE | 16 | |
| 4837736128 | What were Sumarian temples called | Ziggurats | 17 | |
| 4837739110 | Were Sumarians polytheistic or monotheistic? | polytheistic | 18 | |
| 4837742455 | Sumers inventions | wheel, improved plow and bronze | 19 | |
| 4837747877 | Epic of Gilgamesh | epic about larger than life hero, first hero in literature, truth-misery and sorrow are part of human life | 20 | |
| 4837755846 | code of hammurabi | code of laws, provides insight into problems of time,upper class less severe, men is less severe | 21 | |
| 4837761120 | Sargon of Akkad | first ruler of Akkadian empire, conquered Sumarian city states in 2350 bce weakened by war. | 22 | |
| 4837774944 | Akkaidens | ruled by sargon conquered Sumer declined due to famine and invasion | 23 | |
| 4837786611 | Babylonians | ruled for 250 years capital babylon | 24 | |
| 4837802418 | Hammurabi | 1792 BC Hammurabi established law codes Code Of Hammurabi | 25 | |
| 4837803030 | Hittites | Conquered Babylon in 1590 BC with advanced tech capital in turkey 710 BC collapsed | 26 | |
| 4837828016 | Assyrians | controlled area of Syria, babylon and egypt Had cavalry, chariots, battering rams and iron weapons conquered tortured, enslaved or killed library constructed by him had over 20,000 tablets | 27 | |
| 4837873374 | Chaldeans | hanging garden calculated length of year fell to persians | 28 | |
| 4837877353 | Phoenicians | ? | 29 | |
| 4837885881 | 3000-600 BCE | preclasical era | 30 | |
| 4837893460 | Where is Egypt? | Nile River Valley, Africa | 31 | |
| 4837898214 | Early dynastic period of egypt | (3000-2700) Religion and political administrators were centered | 32 | |
| 4837905989 | Old Kingdom of egypt | (2700-2200) Pharaohs become god like | 33 | |
| 4837913907 | Pharaohs | had absolute power dynasty power from father to son | 34 | |
| 4837918443 | writing system of egypt | Hieroglyphs, wrote on papyrus | 35 | |
| 4837926252 | Menes | United Egypt | 36 | |
| 4837932232 | Snefru | built three pyramids that still stand | 37 | |
| 4837932819 | Djoser | built Step pyramid, first deified emperor, huge tomb, model of later pharaohs | 38 | |
| 4837933828 | Sesostris | built fortresses, first pharaoh to show he loves people but not enemies and is human, destroyed Nubia. | 39 | |
| 4837940387 | Hatshepsut | first women ruler, lover was architect and built most lavish temple. made the obelisk and took throne from Thutmose | 40 | |
| 4837941010 | Amenhotep/Akhenaten | transfered religion of Egypt, made new city Akhetaten | 41 | |
| 4837941011 | Tutankhamen | Tomb undisturbed found many treasures in it died at young age | 42 | |
| 4837942281 | Seti I | extravagant tomb cut from pure rock, built hypostyle hall, conquerer, died unexpectedly | 43 | |
| 4838017597 | Religion of egypt | Polytheistic, Amon-Ra universal God Osiris-God of dead Isis-Wife of Osiris, goddess of egypt Horus-God of light | 44 | |
| 4838022504 | burial practices of egypt | originally mastabas then pyramids Buried with possessions and mummified so ka and ba can be reunited | 45 | |
| 4838028215 | when did civilization emerge in the nile valley | 46 | ||
| 4838211401 | what are the major urban centers of the Indus Valley | Harappa and Mohenjo Daro-hill of the dead | 47 | |
| 4838213431 | Trade items of Indus Valley | pottery, metalworking in bronze, beads, turquoise, copper and silver | 48 | |
| 4838214528 | why was religion not as important in Indus valley | burials were not nearly as extravagant as those in egypt | 49 | |
| 4838215652 | why do we know less about indus valley civilization? | scarse written records, don't have words of harappans and can't fully translate language | 50 | |
| 4838217660 | What group replaced the indus valley civilization | Aryans | 51 | |
| 4838231340 | What are the first three dynasties of China | Xia (2205-1176) Shang(1766-1122) Zhou (1122-256) | 52 | |
| 4838255135 | Religion in early China | Sacrifices human and animal oracle bones used for divination Emperor was dependent from gods | 53 | |
| 4838272305 | Accomplishments of the Shang | constructed irrigation and flood control bronze weapons and utensils horse drawn chariots | 54 | |
| 4838276068 | Accomplishments of the Zhou | developed mandate from heaven book of documents details conquest built roads canals and coins produced cast iron | 55 | |
| 4838280168 | book of documents of the Zhou | details accomplishments and conquests | 56 | |
| 4838280555 | mandate from heaven | If not a a just and wise leader then you got kicked out | 57 | |
| 4838326231 | how is urbanization in mesoamerica similar to that of China | Began as religious shrine centers developed into city states some had great influence | 58 | |
| 4838329345 | Olmec | raised platforms and settlements rudimentary hieroglyphs destroyed religious sites and giant stone heads | 59 | |
| 4838333103 | Maya | Fully fledged cities states extensive sacrifice elaborate barrels advanced hieroglyphics and calendar king was religious center | 60 | |
| 4838335918 | tikal | most completely excavated city had over 360,000 people | 61 | |
| 4838337480 | Chitin Itza | Mayan ruins, massive step pyramids | 62 | |
| 4838340054 | popol vuh | book of the people most complete collection of creation myths of early maya | 63 | |
| 4838342510 | maya code | mayan glyphs is the writing system of ancient mayans only mesoamerica writing system mostly deciphered | 64 | |
| 4838355189 | technology of maya | used stone tools almost all work done by hand believed it had more value | 65 | |
| 4838358069 | monuments of maya | massive stone pyramids and organized cities | 66 | |
| 4838359209 | Teotihuacan | had sun and moon pyramids trading outpost regularity city plan got too big | 67 | |
| 4838361578 | Tenochtitlan | city state that became capital of area taking out all competition | 68 | |
| 4838368121 | Chinampas | farming areas for Aztecs, large areas of man made islands that could produce crops for growing population and people could live on | 69 | |
| 4838370173 | Hernan Cortez | Conquered Aztecs | 70 | |
| 4838371436 | Montezuma | first ruler of aztecs and made his own tomb | 71 | |
| 4838372069 | religion of aztecs | had to sacrifice one person to gods or sun wouldn't rise polytheistic built temples to gods | 72 | |
| 4838376478 | human sacrifice | Aztecs sacrificed at least one person a day to keep sun rising | 73 | |
| 4838377555 | Chavin | in andes mountains central peru a ceremonial cite at their capital Chavin de Haunter shows existence | 74 | |
| 4838383011 | inca | civilization that spread very far and grew very powerful but only lasted from 1476-1534 | 75 | |
| 4838389980 | how do we know their was a strong central government | people had to pay taxes extensive roads strong infrastructure | 76 | |
| 4838391095 | quipu | The quipu is a series of colored, knotted strings. The type of knot indicated a number, and the knot's placement signified units of 1, 10, 100, or more used for Inca record keeping | 77 | |
| 4838394325 | Mita system | unpaid labor for public construction for part of year. required from all adults | 78 |
