Inventions from Eastern Civilizations

Inventions from Eastern Civilizations

by Mr. Gonder

Multiple Choice

Which of the following inventions from Eastern civilizations is the primary source?

• spear phalanx

• mirrors

• makeup

• zoos

• Interactions with animals shaped the world of the ancient people of the Near East: they shepherded flocks, guarded against dangerous wild animals, traveled long distances with the help of pack animals, hunted for subsistence and for sport, rode horses into battle, and marveled at powerful beasts and exotic creatures from distant lands.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following inventions from Eastern civilizations is the primary source?

• poison gas

• aqueducts

• metal water pipes

• zoos

• T​he first known use of metal water pipes comes from the mortuary temple of Pharaoh Sahure at Abusir, Egypt.

• ​The pipes were all made from sheets of copper folded over to make a tube.

• The drains connected to a central sewer paved over with limestone slabs that drained wastewater away from the complex.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following inventions from Eastern civilizations is the primary source?

• mirror

• spear phalanx

• plow

• aqueduct

• ​The Greeks made the phalanx famous, but the concept was nearly 2000 years old by the time they adopted it.

• The earliest depiction of a spear phalanx comes from a stele from the Sumerian city-state of Lagash.

• The stele was commissioned by King Eannatum of Lagash to commemorate victory in a border war with the rival city of Umma at about 2455-2425 BC.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following inventions from Eastern civilizations is the primary source?

• ziggurat

• cuneiform

• hieroglyphs

• aqueduct

• ​Cuneiform is a logo-syllabic script that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Near East.

• The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the beginning of the Common Era.

• It is named for the characteristic wedge-shaped impressions which form its sign.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following inventions from Eastern civilizations is the primary source?

• the chariot 

• hydraulic engineering

• gunpowder

• mass-produced pottery

• As far as we know, Gunpowder first appeared in China 700 years after Africanus lived and did not reach the Near East until the 13th century.

• It has been speculated that Byzantine Greek Fire contained potassium nitrate, but that has generally been discounted by recent scholars.​

Multiple Choice

Which of the following inventions from Eastern civilizations is the primary source?

• mathematics

• metallurgy

• plow

• chariot

• ​The Sumerians didn’t invent wheeled vehicles, but they probably developed the first two-wheeled chariot in which a driver drove a team of animals. 

• ​There’s evidence the Sumerians had such carts for transportation in the 3000s B.C., but they were probably used for ceremonies or by the military.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following inventions from Eastern civilizations is the primary source?

• plow

• textile mill

• mass-produced bricks

• metallurgy

• ​The Sumerians invented the plow, a vital technology in farming.

• They even produced a manual that gave farmers detailed instructions on how to use various types of plows.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following inventions from Eastern civilizations is the primary source?

• mathematics

• textile mills

• metallurgy

• mass-produced bricks

• ​“The Sumerians’ innovation was to turn their temples into huge factories,” Goodman explains.

• He notes that the Sumerians were the first to cross kin lines and form larger working organizations for making textiles—the predecessors of modern manufacturing companies.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following inventions from Eastern civilizations is the primary source?

• metal water pipes

• makeup

• investment banking

• poison gas

• ​The earliest known cosmetics were discovered in the Royal Graves of Ur, a series of Sumerian burials from the Early Dynastic IIIa period of Ur (c. 2600 BC).

• The graves of prominent women contained gold scallop-shell dishes which when tested were shown to contain pigment residue.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following inventions from Eastern civilizations is the primary source?

• aqueduct

• mirror

• mathematics

• plow

• ​Mirrors were not just used for personal purposes. Bronze mirrors were also found at the copper mines at Serabit el-Khadim in the Sinai Peninsula.

• Since miners were probably not applying eye liner, it has been speculated that the mirrors were used to reflect light down the mine shafts.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following inventions from Eastern civilizations is the primary source?

• Suez Canal

• mass-produced bricks

• investment banking

• aqueduct

• ​The first aqueduct was built in 690 BC on the orders of the Assyrian king Sennacherib as part of the system of canals that supplied water to the capital city of Nineveh.

• The Assyrians built a 90-foot stone aqueduct of stone that bridged the stream. A fine slope kept water flowing.

Poll

Which of the following inventions from Eastern civilizations is most interesting to you?

• mirrors

• gunpowder

• makeup

• chariot

• other

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​Why did inventions from Eastern civilizations impact world history?

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Open Ended

​Why did inventions from Eastern civilizations impact world history?

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