HIS 101 Western Civilization to 1689 - CH 1 WQ
What was the major impact of Hyksos conquest and rule on Egyptian history?
It prompted the rulers of Egypt's New Kingdom to create an Egyptian empire of tributary states.
The Neolithic period connotes the move to what kind of society?
agricultural
Çatal Hüyük was a
community of nearly a thousand rectangular houses in Anatolia.
The Assyrian and Babylonian attacks marked the beginning of the Diaspora, or
emigration of Hebrews from Israel to other lands.
By what date had most of the animals upon which humans depend been domesticated?
2500 BCE
Egypt's dynastic history began with the merging of Upper and Lower Egypt about
3000 BCE.
In the last 12,000 years the human population has exploded from 1 to 5 million humans in 10,000 BCE to how many people as of 2011?
7 billion
About what percentage of all human existence occurred during prehistoric times?
97.5 percent
Why was Egypt more politically stable, confident, and self-sufficient than Mesopotamia?
Egypt's geography left it isolated and protected from frequent turmoil.
What is the chief characteristic of the "Mesopotamian model" of civilization?
Empires emerge from important cities and dominate and incorporate other cities and lands.
How did the great carbohydrate shift in the human diet change human existence?
It allowed human beings to escape dependence on nomadic gathering and hunting.
What made the Near East a hotbed of historical development?
The contact and competition among peoples.
Why was Europe well behind the Near East culturally and economically?
The warmer Fertile Crescent blossomed while Europe still felt the effects of the Ice Age.
Why was God's renewal of the covenant with the Hebrews a defining moment in Jewish religious history?
With it the Hebrews had their own legally based and religiously sanctioned legal and moral code.
State power in Egypt flowed to officials, including viziers, from the
king, and through him from the gods.
The most celebrated document to survive from the reign of Hammurabi is his famous
law code.
The impact of the Sea Raiders on early Mediterranean civilizations was to
limit its immediate growth and economic prospects.
European hunter-gatherers of the period from about 35,000 to 15,000 years ago began to produce
objects with symbolic meaning.
In Mesopotamian society, writing was a tool that empowered
priests and rulers.
By the third millennium BCE, society in the developing cities of southern Mesopotamia was
rigidly hierarchical.
The Epic of Gilgamesh is not only the world's first great literary work, but an example of the meshing of
royal and religious persons.
What invention allowed the Indo-Europeans to influence developing lands to the south, east, and west of their homeland?
wheeled carts pulled by horses
Prehistory is normally thought of as that period before the invention of
writing
