ASB 222 FINAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% CORRECT
ASB 222 FINAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% CORRECT
ASB 222 FINAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% CORRECT
levees - ANSWER-Raised banks along a stream channel that increase velocity, upstream risks and create false security to live by bodies of water...
ASB 222 FINAL QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 100% CORRECT
levees - ANSWER-Raised banks along a stream channel that increase velocity,
upstream risks and create false security to live by bodies of water likely to flood
Standard of Ur - ANSWER-Sumerian Culture artifact. ca 2600 BCE. Ur(Tell Muqayyar) ,
Iraq. rectangular box has sloping sides inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone.
War side & peace side. Another example of historical narratives.
Akkadian - ANSWER-...
Law Code of Hammurabi - ANSWER-...
Cylinder Seals - ANSWER-Sumer's most famous works of art; they were stone cylinders
engraved with designs that when rolled over clay, the designs would leave behind their
imprint and each seal left its own distinct imprint showing a person's ownership; it was a
way to "sign" documents or decorate other objects.
Tell - ANSWER-...
Ziggurat - ANSWER-...
Bullae - ANSWER-Clay envelopes or balls that enclose small tokens, with the surface
marked with sea shells. Ancient way of recording transactions.
Dead Sea Scrolls - ANSWER-Discovered in 1947 in caves near the Dead Sea, these
manuscripts belonged to the Jewish Essene sect, which lived in a monastery at
Qumran. The scrolls contain Essene religious documents, commentaries on certain
Hebrew Scriptures, and ancient Old Testament manuscripts. They have proved very
valuable to scholars in studying the Old Testament and for learning about some Jewish
practices at the time of Jesus.
Anthropogenic Landscapes - ANSWER-Landscapes made by humans as they change
the way they manage resources.
Mehrgarh Phase - ANSWER-Precursor to the Indus Valley Civilization.
Mud Brick Architecture - ANSWER-Where do you find it, why does it matter.
Catalhoyuk, Mesopotamia, Turkey, sites where it melts down and erodes through time,
shows us that they rebuilt right on top of it to make a tell.
, Lapis lazuli - ANSWER-Blue semi-precious stone with little gold flecks in it. Scarce
(from Afghanistan) and valuable commodity. Used by emperors in grave goods, jewelry,
furniture and mummy mask of Tutankhamen,
Rammed Earth Architecture - ANSWER-The process of building walls by smashing dirt
in between two boards until it is hard, Chinese yellow earth
Longshan Phase - ANSWER-Emergence of large wall settlements of rammed earth.
Rapid acceleration of social and political complexity.
Oracle Bones - ANSWER-cattle bones or tortoise shells on which Chinese priests would
write questions and then interpret answers from the cracks that formed when the bones
were heated, The earliest known Chinese writing is found on these from ritual activity of
the Shang period.
Harappan - ANSWER-a civilization in the Indus River Valley of India from roughly 7,000
BCE to 2,000 BCE. Developed standardized systems of measurement (weight etc.).
had polytheistic religious beliefs that worshipped resources essential for their survival
(cattle etc.)
Early Harappan - ANSWER-Trade networks linked this culture with related regional
cultures and distant sources of raw materials, including lapis lazuli and other materials
for bead-making. Villagers had, by this time, domesticated numerous crops, including
peas, sesame seeds, dates, and cotton, as well as various animals, including the water
buffalo. Early Harappan communities turned to large urban centres by 2600 BCE, from
where the mature Harappan phase started.
Mature Harappan - ANSWER-2600-1900 BC -several large, planned cities on artificial
mounds (Harappa and Mohenjo Daro), urban planning -citadels, grain storage facilities,
markets, baths, etc., local writing system, lack of monumental architecture typically
associated with an elite, centralized administration of flood control and irrigation
systems.
Late Harappan - ANSWER-1900-1500 BC -cities abandoned with environmental
changes including flooding and changes in river channels away from the existing
populations. Site of Rojdi.
Deir el-Medina - ANSWER-A village built for workers at the Valley of the Kings in Egypt.
Provided insight on the lives of every day Egyptians.
Abu Simbel - ANSWER-Temple built by Ramses the Great that was carved out of
sandstone cliffs and at its entrance, four 66-foot-tall statues show Ramses as pharaoh.
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