Unit 1 Exam Prep

The era BEFORE farming began; humans lived as hunter-gatherers

• Neolithic

• Prehistory

• Paleolithic

• Euphrates

Homo _________ included both Neanderthals and Modern Humans

• Sapiens

• Erectus

• Habilis

• Australopithecus

The _________________, or Neolithic Revolution ended hunter-gathering societies and paved the way for civilizations to develop

• Cenozoic

• Agricultural (farming)

• Paleolithic

• Slash and Burn

This was the first Civilization

• Babylon

• Hitites

• Egypt

• Sumer

These two rivers gave birth to Mesopotamian civilizations, such as Sumer and Babylon

• Tigris and Euphrates

• Indus and Tigris

• Tuckaseegee and Oconaluftee

• Euphrates and Nile

Which of the following is one of the 5 Essential Traits of Civilization

• Use of Bronze

• Growtht of Cities

• Irrigation Ditches

• Agriculture

This was the first form of writing; was invented by the Sumerians

• Hieroglyphics

• Demotic

• Erratic

• Cunieform

This was the first codified (assembled) set of laws recorded in history

• Edict of Milan

• Hammurabi's Code

• Sargon's Code

• The Ten Commandments

Judaism was different from other religions in Mesopotamia because it was

• Monotheistic (believed in one god)

• Polytheistic (believed in many gods)

• Pantheistic (God is everywhere/everything)

• Atheistic (believed in no gods)

This Empire was the first to conquer all Mesopotamia and then Egypt; used iron weapons.

• The Hitites

• The Babylonians

• The Assyrians

• The Persians