HIST 201 BYU (Mark Christensen)
Midterm Questions Fully Solved.
Hominin - Answer Literally any human
Bipedalism - Answer walking on 2 legs
Homo Erectus - Answer Mastered fire and walking
Homo sapiens - Answer better tools, bigger brains, CULTURAL CREATIVITY, groups, and
settlers, HUNTED ANIMALS
30K - 50K years ago there was jewelry, symbols, and art, creating meaning beyond necessity.
Why did homosapiens survive? - Answer - Better communication; transmission of
knowledge. (vocal chords more developed)
- More social and communal
- Hunted larger animals and adapted to drier climates
- More versatile
Agrarian-urban society - Answer A type of society characterized by intensive agriculture and
people living in cities, towns, and villages.
From the East
Occurred in the FERTIL CRESCENT
Water/Flooding/ Tigris and Euphrates/ Irrigation
Fertile Crescent - Answer A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a
broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates
Tigris and Euphrates - Answer Mesopotamia is the land between what two rivers?
Natufian Culture - Answer A Mesolithic culture from the lands that are now Israel, Lebanon,
and western Syria
, Selective Breeding, large grained cereal, Animal domestication, completed writing, DIGGING
STICK
SIMILAR ADVANTAGES WITH PREDICTABLE FLOODING OF THE NILE
Villages to Tows - Answer assemblies, social stratification (western land owners, political and
religious leaders)
City States - Answer More than 5,000 people
leadership
not just farmers
military
Urban centers in Mesopotamia - Answer The plow
potters wheel
wheeled vehicles
beer
*Bronze
Patriarchy
WAR AND RELIGION
Cuneiform - Answer A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge shaped
stylus and clay tablets.
Akkadians - Answer this civilization included Semitic people living north of Sumeria; united
city-states of Mesopotamia; first empire in history; established by Sargon the Great
Babylonia - Answer An ancient Mesopotamian empire that extended throughout the Fertile
Crescent in the 1700s B.C.
HAMURABI
Hamurabi - Answer Babylonian; developed 1st code of laws
Midterm Questions Fully Solved.
Hominin - Answer Literally any human
Bipedalism - Answer walking on 2 legs
Homo Erectus - Answer Mastered fire and walking
Homo sapiens - Answer better tools, bigger brains, CULTURAL CREATIVITY, groups, and
settlers, HUNTED ANIMALS
30K - 50K years ago there was jewelry, symbols, and art, creating meaning beyond necessity.
Why did homosapiens survive? - Answer - Better communication; transmission of
knowledge. (vocal chords more developed)
- More social and communal
- Hunted larger animals and adapted to drier climates
- More versatile
Agrarian-urban society - Answer A type of society characterized by intensive agriculture and
people living in cities, towns, and villages.
From the East
Occurred in the FERTIL CRESCENT
Water/Flooding/ Tigris and Euphrates/ Irrigation
Fertile Crescent - Answer A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a
broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates
Tigris and Euphrates - Answer Mesopotamia is the land between what two rivers?
Natufian Culture - Answer A Mesolithic culture from the lands that are now Israel, Lebanon,
and western Syria
, Selective Breeding, large grained cereal, Animal domestication, completed writing, DIGGING
STICK
SIMILAR ADVANTAGES WITH PREDICTABLE FLOODING OF THE NILE
Villages to Tows - Answer assemblies, social stratification (western land owners, political and
religious leaders)
City States - Answer More than 5,000 people
leadership
not just farmers
military
Urban centers in Mesopotamia - Answer The plow
potters wheel
wheeled vehicles
beer
*Bronze
Patriarchy
WAR AND RELIGION
Cuneiform - Answer A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge shaped
stylus and clay tablets.
Akkadians - Answer this civilization included Semitic people living north of Sumeria; united
city-states of Mesopotamia; first empire in history; established by Sargon the Great
Babylonia - Answer An ancient Mesopotamian empire that extended throughout the Fertile
Crescent in the 1700s B.C.
HAMURABI
Hamurabi - Answer Babylonian; developed 1st code of laws
