APWH Ch. 1 Flashcards
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| 290881431 | The human species was characterized in the Paleolithic Age by what four things? | The development of simple stone and wooden tools, slow population growth, the ability to communicate with speech, the ability to express themselves freely. | 0 | |
| 290881432 | The characteristic political organization of the Tigris-Euphrates civilization was what? | Regional city-states | 1 | |
| 290881433 | Jewish monotheism came about during what civilization? | Tigris-Euphrates | 2 | |
| 290881434 | Jewish monotheism emphasized what? | The power and abstraction of God | 3 | |
| 290881435 | What criteria are required to define an area as a civilization? | A writing system, social classes, and development of cities. | 4 | |
| 290881436 | The development of writing helps... | Explain why governments could become more formal and bureaucratic. | 5 | |
| 290881437 | What does not define a civilization? | Equality between the social classes. | 6 | |
| 290881438 | Egyptian civilization differed from Mesopotamian civilization by stressing | More centralized and durable empires | 7 | |
| 290881439 | As with most influential of the smaller ME regional cultures, the Jewish culture was characterized most by... | Monotheism | 8 | |
| 290881440 | A characteristic of the human species before the advent of civilization was what? | The ability to spread geographic units and climate zones. | 9 | |
| 290881441 | Which river-valley civilization was most completely destroyed by invasion? | Indus-valley | 10 | |
| 290881442 | The Paleolithic age refers to what? | The period in which simple stone tools were developed. | 11 | |
| 290881443 | Most civilizations developed writing, starting with the emergence of __ in the ME around 3500 B.C.E | cuneiform | 12 | |
| 290881444 | By about about 1500 B.C.E, a line of kings called the __ ruled over the Huang River valley civilization. | Shang | 13 | |
| 290881445 | The largest city to develop along the Indus River was __ | Harappa | 14 | |
| 290881446 | Early civilization began in China along the __ | Huanghe river | 15 | |
| 290881447 | The civilization with the longest-lasting stability was in __ | Egypt | 16 | |
| 290881448 | The belief in a single deity is known as __ | monotheism | 17 | |
| 290881449 | The era in which sedentary agriculture began is called __ | the Neolithic Revolution | 18 | |
| 290881450 | It was under the Babylonian rule that King __ introduced the most famous early code of law. | Hammurabi | 19 | |
| 290881451 | A smaller regional culture called the __ devised an alphabet with twenty-two letters; this in turn was the ancestor of the Greek and Latin alphabets. | Phoenicians | 20 |