Benchmark #2 Review;Questions And Answers.
Before Christ - answer;-BC stands for
Before Common Era - answer;-What does BCE stand for?
Anno Domini (in the year of our Lord) - answer;-What does AD stand for?
Common Era - answer;-What does CE stand for?
Around, about, near - answer;-Circa
Decade - answer;-a period of ten years
Centuries - answer;-a period of 100 years
Spears, Bow & Arrow - answer;-List examples of hunting weapons used by Early man
Cook, Light, Heat, Scare animals, "smoke" meat - answer;-How did early man use fire?
Caves, rock overhangs - answer;-What did hunter-gatherers use for shelters?
Hand Axe, Knives, scrapers (to clean animal skins) - answer;-List examples of tools
used by early man
-Ate more meat (Protein/fat in the meat helped keep bodies warmer
-Warmer clothes
-Shelters
-Fire - answer;-How did people survive the Ice Ages?
Trade--No money used - answer;-Define Barter
Tame an animal for human use - answer;-Define Domestication
-Permanent Homes
-Population Grew
-Surplus
-Specialization - answer;-Agricultural /Neolithic Revolution--How did things change?
-When you grow more food than you need
-Trade & Some people could stop farming and specialize - answer;-Food Surpluses--
What are they? And what did they lead too?
Becoming an expert in one kind of work (Pottery, Weaving) - answer;-What is
specilization?
, Benchmark #2 Review;Questions And Answers.
Culture, Government, Religion, Social Structure, Stable Food Suppy, Technology,
Writing - answer;-What are the key characteristics of a civilization?
Shaped like a crescent/good soil for farming - answer;-Why is it called the Fertile
Crescent?
Country ruled by a king or queen - answer;-What is a monarchy?
-Monarchy is one country or territory
-An empire is many territories ruled by one person - answer;-How is a monarchy
different than an empire?
Sargon of Akkad/Mesopotamia - answer;-Who invented the first empire, and where was
the empire located?
Worship of many gods - answer;-What is polytheism?
-Explained the unexplainable
-Controlled all aspects of life (examples--god of farming, sun god, river god) - answer;-
What did deities (gods) have to do with nature and myhtology?
Cuneiform - answer;-What form of writing was invented in Mesopotamia (Sumer)?
Clay tablets/used stylus to push into wet clay - answer;-What did the Mesopotamians
write on?
Gilgamesh - answer;-What is the oldest story known to man?
First major code of law written down - answer;-What is the Code of Hammurabi?
Eye for an eye
Punishment fits the crime - answer;-What principle is the code of Hammurabi based on?
Series of canals or ditches, dug to get water to crops - answer;-What is irrigation?
Bucket on a string to get water in to the irrigation canals - answer;-What is a shadoof?
-Studied the night sky
-Learned the moon cycles
-Calendar was based on the cycles of the moon - answer;-How did the Egyptians
develop a calendar?
First woman pharaoh, Made Egypt great through Trade - answer;-Why was Hatshepsut
an Important Pharaoh?
Before Christ - answer;-BC stands for
Before Common Era - answer;-What does BCE stand for?
Anno Domini (in the year of our Lord) - answer;-What does AD stand for?
Common Era - answer;-What does CE stand for?
Around, about, near - answer;-Circa
Decade - answer;-a period of ten years
Centuries - answer;-a period of 100 years
Spears, Bow & Arrow - answer;-List examples of hunting weapons used by Early man
Cook, Light, Heat, Scare animals, "smoke" meat - answer;-How did early man use fire?
Caves, rock overhangs - answer;-What did hunter-gatherers use for shelters?
Hand Axe, Knives, scrapers (to clean animal skins) - answer;-List examples of tools
used by early man
-Ate more meat (Protein/fat in the meat helped keep bodies warmer
-Warmer clothes
-Shelters
-Fire - answer;-How did people survive the Ice Ages?
Trade--No money used - answer;-Define Barter
Tame an animal for human use - answer;-Define Domestication
-Permanent Homes
-Population Grew
-Surplus
-Specialization - answer;-Agricultural /Neolithic Revolution--How did things change?
-When you grow more food than you need
-Trade & Some people could stop farming and specialize - answer;-Food Surpluses--
What are they? And what did they lead too?
Becoming an expert in one kind of work (Pottery, Weaving) - answer;-What is
specilization?
, Benchmark #2 Review;Questions And Answers.
Culture, Government, Religion, Social Structure, Stable Food Suppy, Technology,
Writing - answer;-What are the key characteristics of a civilization?
Shaped like a crescent/good soil for farming - answer;-Why is it called the Fertile
Crescent?
Country ruled by a king or queen - answer;-What is a monarchy?
-Monarchy is one country or territory
-An empire is many territories ruled by one person - answer;-How is a monarchy
different than an empire?
Sargon of Akkad/Mesopotamia - answer;-Who invented the first empire, and where was
the empire located?
Worship of many gods - answer;-What is polytheism?
-Explained the unexplainable
-Controlled all aspects of life (examples--god of farming, sun god, river god) - answer;-
What did deities (gods) have to do with nature and myhtology?
Cuneiform - answer;-What form of writing was invented in Mesopotamia (Sumer)?
Clay tablets/used stylus to push into wet clay - answer;-What did the Mesopotamians
write on?
Gilgamesh - answer;-What is the oldest story known to man?
First major code of law written down - answer;-What is the Code of Hammurabi?
Eye for an eye
Punishment fits the crime - answer;-What principle is the code of Hammurabi based on?
Series of canals or ditches, dug to get water to crops - answer;-What is irrigation?
Bucket on a string to get water in to the irrigation canals - answer;-What is a shadoof?
-Studied the night sky
-Learned the moon cycles
-Calendar was based on the cycles of the moon - answer;-How did the Egyptians
develop a calendar?
First woman pharaoh, Made Egypt great through Trade - answer;-Why was Hatshepsut
an Important Pharaoh?
