Unit 1 Vocabulary Quiz

Which term matches: "more complex societies but sometimes used by anthropologists to describe any group of people sharing a set of cultural traits"

• Civilization

• Loess

• Harappa

• Empire

Which term matches: "the period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolutions"

• Iron Age

• Paleolithic Age

• Neolithic Age

• Stone Age

Which two civilizations were found on or near Ancient Greece?

• Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro

• Chang'an and Luoyang

• Alexandria and Thebes

• Minoan and Mycanaean

Which peoples are described as below:

• Semitic-speaking Canaanites
• Merchants and sailors
• Founded Carthage and other colonies

• Carthaginian

• Roman

• Kush

• Phoenecian

What is, "a gift given to a deity, often with the aim of creating a relationship, gaining favor, and obligating the god to provide some benefit to the sacrificer."

• Sacrifice

• Scribe

• Satrap

• Holocene

What is the, "Egyptian term for the concept of divinely created and maintained order in the universe; Egyptian's belief in an essentially beneficent world,."

• Hieroglyphics

• Ma'at

• Pharoah

• Pyramids

What are:

• People who established an empire in the Late Bronze Age
• Wealth from trade in metals
• Military power based on chariot forces
• Fell to unidentified attackers

• Kush

• Chavin

• Barbaroi

• Hittites

Which war describes a, "conflict between the Athenian and Spartan alliance systems that convulsed most of the Greek world that Sparta prevailed in, because of Athenian errors and Persian financial support?"

• Persian Wars

• Peloponnesian Wars

• Third-Century Crisis

• Punic Wars

What is a, "Chinese religious and political ideology developed by the Zhou that granted power to the ruler of China and to take away that power if the ruler failed," called?

• Feng Shui

• Divination

• Mandate of Heaven

• Yin and Yang

Which of the following could be used to describe megaliths?

• structures and complexes of very large stones constructed for ceremonial and religious purposes in Neolithic times

• a massive pyramidal stepped tower made of mud bricks

• Greek and Phoenician warship of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE

• a large, triangular stone monument, used as a burial place for the king