FINALS THEME 1

Question 1

What was the Neolithic Revolution?

Answer 1

The shift from food gathering to food producing

Question 2

What was happening before the Neolithic Revolution and what happened after?

Answer 2

Before = people were nomadic hunter-gatherers that moved from place to place hunting and gathering their food
After = people are sedentary, staying in one place and farming and killing domestic crops and animals for food

Question 3

What did the Neolithic Revolution lead to?

Answer 3

Humans were able to set up permanent residence, allowing for the formation of the first civilizations

Question 4

What are the 5 characteristics of civilization?

Answer 4

Specialization
Advanced cities
Record keeping
Complex institutions
Advanced technology

Question 5

What does it mean to have specialization?

Answer 5

A civilization has a food surplus that allows for divisions of labor to be formed because they don’t need more farmers raising food

Question 6

What does it mean to have advanced cities?

Answer 6

A civilization includes a large urban population and centers that are engaged in trade

Question 7

What does it mean to have record keeping?

Answer 7

A civilization has physical, though not necessarily written, records of things that occur in the civilization, such as religious and political events, laws, and/or transactions

Question 8

What does it mean to have complex institutions?

Answer 8

A civilization has administrative and organizational entities that provide rule and order, such as governments, religions, economies, and/or social hierarchies

Question 9

What does it mean to have advanced technology?

Answer 9

A civilization has innovation, engineering, and infrastructure that improve life in some way, whether that means computers, couches, or plows for farming

Question 10

What is a barter economy?

Answer 10

An economical system in which people directly trade goods and services for other goods or services without using money

Question 11

What is a scribe?

Answer 11

A professional record keeper

Question 12

What is something’s form? What is its function?

Answer 12

A description of the way it Looks/appears
how it is used and what it is used for

Question 13

What was cuneiform’s form?

Answer 13

Wedge-shaped writing on baked clay tablets

Question 14

Where is cuneiform from?

Answer 14

Mesopotamia

Question 15

Where was quipu used and by whom?

Answer 15

the Inca in MesoAmerica

Question 16

What was the quipu’s form?

Answer 16

colorful cotton strings with knots in them

Question 17

What was the quipu’s function?

Answer 17

a counting/accounting device used similarly to receipts to record amounts of goods sold, etc.

Question 18

Where were hieroglyphics used?

Answer 18

Ancient Egypt

Question 19

What were the hieroglyphics’ form?

Answer 19

pictographs carved into wood or stone

Question 20

Where were codices used and by whom?

Answer 20

the Maya in MesoAmerica

Question 21

What were the codices’ form?

Answer 21

books made of wood written in with a system of glyphs

Question 22

What is the singular form of codices?

Answer 22

Codex

Question 23

Where were oracle bones used?

Answer 23

Shang Dynasty in China

Question 24

What were the oracle bones’ form?

Answer 24

text written on animal bones

Question 25

What were the oracle bones' function?

Answer 25

record religious and technological ideas and events and to ask questions to the ancestors and record their answers

Question 26

How were oracle bones used?

Answer 26

1. a question to the ancestors was asked 2. heated pokers were applied to certain points on the bone 3. cracks formed due to the heat and were read, determining the ancestors' answer 4. the answer was recorded by carving it into the bone

Question 27

What is papyrus? What is it the basis of/what modern invention was based off of it?

Answer 27

A writing surface made of reeds Paper

Question 28

Who invented papyrus? Why?

Answer 28

The Egyptians It was significantly lighter than stone and wood, which is what they used to write on

Question 29

What is MesoAmerica?

Answer 29

The cultures located in North and South America before the arrival of the Europeans

Question 30

What is the Rosetta Stone? What was it made to do?

Answer 30

A large stone containing the same text written in hieroglyphics, demotic, and ancient Greek used to track taxes

Question 31

Why is the Rosetta Stone significant today?

Answer 31

It has helped us to learn how to better translate/understand hieroglyphic texts by translating the Ancient Greek

Question 32

What are the Benin Bronzes? What were they made to do?

Answer 32

A collection of plaques, statuettes, masks, and ivory tusks used as decorations and to tell the religious and political history of Benin

Question 33

What is the British Museum? Why was it created?

Answer 33

A museum in London, England, originally built to house and display artifacts taken/looted from countries Britain colonized

Question 34

What is a pharaoh?

Answer 34

later Egyptian kings, many of whom were believed to be gods or children of the gods

Question 35

What sort of importance did pharaohs have?

Answer 35

religious (high priests, built temples, ran ceremonies, etc.) and political (declare war, collect taxes, wrote laws, owned all land in Egypt, etc.)

Question 36

What is a monarchy?

Answer 36

a country governed by a single ruler (a monarch)

Question 37

What is a dynasty (or definition of dynastic)?

Answer 37

a governmental system in which power is passed down through families

Question 38

Define monotheism

Answer 38

the belief in one God

Question 39

Define polytheism

Answer 39

the belief in many gods

Question 40

Define animism

Answer 40

the belief that all objects in nature have divine spirits

Question 41

Define theocracy. Describe

Answer 41

government by religion, in which most of the law are based on religious ideals and rulers are often religious leaders

Question 42

How do you write a complex-split thesis?

Answer 42

1. Although [counterargument/"some would say..."] 2. Thesis ["this is the correct answer to the problem/question"] 3. Because [insert your evidence of why your thesis is correct]

Question 43

What are some examples of secondary sources?

Answer 43

Journal articles, magazines, textbooks, research paper, etc.

Question 44

What are the characteristics of an authoritative secondary source? (5)

Answer 44

The author is an expert on the topic/a researcher/a professor The source has been peer reviewed It has a bibliography/citations It is written with proper grammar and wording It is written in a way to inform you of information

Question 45

What are “red flags” concerning the authority of a secondary source? (6)

Answer 45

Writer doesn’t have good credentials in the field they are writing about The source's structure doesn’t make sense The source's grammar and wording is bad The source is written in a way intended to sell you something (ads all over) The source has no citations The source is not peer reviewed