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| 198273499 | What does Paleolithic mean? | Old Stone | 0 | |
| 198273500 | When did Homo sapiens spaiens originate? | 120,000 years ago | 1 | |
| 198273501 | When and with what did speech develop? | 100,000 years ago Homo erectus | 2 | |
| 198273502 | What does BCE stand for? | Before the Common Era | 3 | |
| 198273503 | What had Homo erectus accomplished 600 | 000 years ago?,the species had spread across Asia, Europe and Africa....developed fire | 4 | |
| 198273504 | When did people arive in the tip of South America? | 25,000 BCE | 5 | |
| 198273505 | When did the ice age end? | 14,000 BCE | 6 | |
| 198273506 | When did the Paleolithic Age end? | 12,000 BCE | 7 | |
| 198273507 | When was farming developed in the Middle East? | 10,000-8,000 BCE | 8 | |
| 198273508 | When and what animals were domesticated? | 9000 BCE...sheep, pgs, goats, cattle | 9 | |
| 198273509 | When was silk weaving introduced in China? | 8000 BCE | 10 | |
| 198273510 | What is the development of agriculture termed as? | the Neolithic revolution | 11 | |
| 198273511 | What system of survival preceeded agriculture? | hunting and gathering | 12 | |
| 198273512 | What crops developed in Mesoamerica? | maize beans | 13 | |
| 198273513 | What crops developed in the Andes? | beans potatoes | 14 | |
| 198273514 | What crops developed in the Middle East? | barley beans wheat | 15 | |
| 198273515 | What crops developed in West Africa? | yams | 16 | |
| 198273516 | What crops developed in Southeast Asia? | bananas breadfruit rice yams | 17 | |
| 198273517 | What era succeded the neolithic revolution | the Bronze Age | 18 | |
| 198273518 | What were the main sources of early civilizations? | Egypt Mesopotamia the Indus River Basin China | 19 | |
| 198273519 | What is "slash and burn agriculture"? | 1. burn off trees in an area 2. farm intensively for a few years 3. move on 4. Repeat | 20 | |
| 198273520 | bands | tribal herds with strong kinship ties | 21 | |
| 198273521 | Catal Huyuk: What/When/Where | What: an unusually large, advanced Neolithic village... When: 7000 BCE onward.....Where: southern Turkey | 22 | |
| 198273522 | What is the accepted definition of "civilization"? | societies with enough economic surplus to form divisions of labor and a social hierarchy involving significant inequalities | 23 | |
| 198273523 | What is cuneiform? | writing based on wedge-like characters | 24 | |
| 198273524 | Where did cuneiform develop? | the Middle East | 25 | |
| 198273525 | When did cuneiform develop? | around 3500 BCE | 26 | |
| 198273526 | Who coined the word "barbarian"? | the ancienct Greeks | 27 | |
| 198273527 | What were the main rivers in Mesopotamia? | Euphrates River Tigris River | 28 | |
| 198273528 | Who developed the first known human alphabet? | the Sumerians | 29 | |
| 198273529 | What are ziggurats | massive towers devoted to patron gods | 30 | |
| 198273530 | What Neolithic society contained city-states? | Sumerian | 31 | |
| 198273531 | What was the main benefit of warfare for the sumerians? | It maintained a supply of slaves (prisoners of combat). | 32 | |
| 198273532 | How did the Sumerians use silver? | coins, as a means of buying and selling | 33 | |
| 198273533 | Who did the Sumerians fall to? | the Akkadians | 34 | |
| 198273534 | Who did the Akkadians fall to? | the Babylonians | 35 | |
| 198273535 | What prince began the first code of law? | Hammurabi | 36 | |
| 198273536 | What is a pharaoh? | The ruler of the Egyptian civilization. | 37 | |
| 198273537 | Pyramids: what/when/where | What: tombs When: 2700 BCE onward Where: Egypt | 38 | |
| 198273538 | In what cardinal direction is Lower Egypt from Upper Egypt? | North | 39 | |
| 198273539 | Where is Giza | Cairo and Memphis?,Lower Egypt (just before the Nile Delta) | 40 | |
| 198273540 | What is Kush? | a kingdom upriver from Egypt that interacted with and attempted to invade Egypt over the course of time | 41 | |
| 198273541 | Where was Harappa and Mohenjo Daro? | along the Indus River | 42 | |
| 198273542 | Who is the mythic ancestor of the Chinese? | P'an Ku | 43 | |
| 198273543 | Along what river did Chinese civilaztion begin? | Huanghe (Yellow River) | 44 | |
| 198273544 | How did the Chinese writing system progress? | 1. knots on a rope 2. scratches on bone 3. ideographic symbols | 45 | |
| 198273545 | About when did the Shang rule the Huanghe valley? | 1500 BCE | 46 | |
| 198273546 | What people's alphabet predecessed the Greek and Latin alphabets? | Phoenicians | 47 | |
| 198273547 | What concept was pivotal in regard to Chinese political thinking and organization? | Madate of Heaven | 48 | |
| 198273548 | What is monotheism? | The belief in only one god | 49 | |
| 198273549 | What religion originated monotheism? | Judaism | 50 | |
| 198273550 | Which of the River Valley civilizations grew in isolation? | Huanghe (Chinese) | 51 |
