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| 198226396 | B.C. | Before Christ | 0 | |
| 198226397 | B.C.E. | Before Common Era | 1 | |
| 198226398 | A.D. | Anno Domini | 2 | |
| 198226399 | C.E. | Common Era | 3 | |
| 198226400 | humans have been on Earth for how many years? Fraction? | 2 to 2.5 million years - 1/4000 | 4 | |
| 198226401 | When was fire tamed? | Paleolithic Era | 5 | |
| 198226402 | What does Paleolithic mean? | old stone age | 6 | |
| 198226403 | How were women treated in the Late Paleolithic household? | there was significant equality - men & women provided equal economic contributions | 7 | |
| 198226404 | Where were the earliest human remains found? | eastern Africa | 8 | |
| 198226405 | What type of things marked the development of humans during the Middle Stone Age? | demostication of more animals, improved fishing, making of stone tools, better weapons w/ sharper edges | 9 | |
| 198226406 | What invention had the greatest effect on the progress of the human species? | the invention of agriculture | 10 | |
| 198226407 | Where were animals 1st domesticated? | in the middle east | 11 | |
| 198226408 | Why were population patterns changing in the New Stone Age? | b/c people were learning to farm & it was a consistant food source. | 12 | |
| 198226409 | Why is the term Neolithic Revolution misleading? | the revolution took thousands of years to spread and develope -- for it to have been a revolution it should have happened quickly | 13 | |
| 198226410 | Why did disease spread more quickly after the "invention" of agriculture? | b/c larger numbers of people were starting to live in closer proximity | 14 | |
| 198226411 | What need spawned the development of basket making? | the need for storage of grains an the things they planted | 15 | |
| 198226412 | Where were the earliest metal tools created? | the middle east | 16 | |
| 198226413 | What is slash-and-burn agriculture? | buring down trees to farm until the fetility of the soil is depleted and then move on | 17 | |
| 198226414 | What type of improvements resulted from settling in nomadic bands? | weaponary | 18 | |
| 198226415 | How do civilizations contribute to intellectual movements? | witing, formal code of laws, city planning, architecture | 19 | |
| 198226416 | What rivers make up Mesopotamia? | Euphrates & Tigris | 20 | |
| 198226417 | What is cuneiform? | 1st form of writing | 21 | |
| 198226418 | What civilization inhabited the Mesopotamia region in 3500 BC? | Sumerians | 22 | |
| 198226419 | Describe the religion of the Sumerians. | they had different gods for different cities. preists operated in ziggurats and conducted rituals inside. sumerians believed in many gods. they said paryers to their gods and gave offerings to stop floods , to have good harvests and things llike that | 23 | |
| 198226420 | What is a city-state? | area ruled by a king who claimed divine authority | 24 | |
| 198226421 | What Middle-Eastern civilization followed the Sumerians? | Akkadians | 25 | |
| 198226422 | How was Egypt different economically from Mesopatamia? | Egypt was more government-directed | 26 | |
| 198226423 | Who invented the 24 hour day? | Egyptians | 27 | |
| 198226424 | What two large acient cites were found on the Indus River Valley? | Harrappa & Mohenjo Daro | 28 | |
| 198226425 | Describe the anctient Chinese writings. | progressed from knots on a rope to scratches of lines on bones, to the invention of ideographic symbols | 29 | |
| 198226426 | Who were the Phonicains and what was their major contribution to society? | a small culture that proved to be very durable and complex -- they devised a 22 letter alphabet & improved the Egyptian numbering system | 30 | |
| 198226427 | Who were the most influential of the smaller groups of early civilization? What was most distinct about their culture? | the Jews -- they gave the worlds 1st monothestic religion | 31 | |
| 198226428 | Why didnt Judaism spread? | b/c they stressed gods special compact with chosen Jewish people | 32 | |
| 198226429 | How was Judaism different from the gods and goddesses of the Middle-East? | the gods were whimisical and harsh. they were thought of more like people. while Jehovah was orderly and just; he was thought of more as a spirit, and lik perfection | 33 |
