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Western Civilization I (Chapters 1-4) Study Guide Solutions Updated 2024 Prehistory - ANSWER-human history in the period before recorded events known mainly through archaeological discoveries, study, research Paleolithic Age - ANSWER-the period of human history when humans used simple stone too...

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Prehistory - ANSWER✔✔-human history in the period before recorded events known mainly through

archaeological discoveries, study, research


Paleolithic Age - ANSWER✔✔-the period of human history when humans used simple stone tools (c.

2,500,000-10,000 b.c.)


Neolithic Age - ANSWER✔✔-latest part of the stone-age beginning about 10,000 BC in the middle-east

(but later elsewhere)


Civilization - ANSWER✔✔-an advanced level of human society, in which a high level of culture, science,

industry, and government has been reached


Agricultural (Neolithic) Revolution - ANSWER✔✔-the shift from hunting and gathering to planting and

growing


Bronze Age - ANSWER✔✔-between the Stone Age and the Iron Age, characterized by the use of

weapons and implements made of bronze


Mesopotamia - ANSWER✔✔-an ancient region in west Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, now

part of Iraq


Tigris and Euphrates Rivers - ANSWER✔✔-The land between these two rivers contained the early

civilizations of Mesopotamia



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Ziggurat - ANSWER✔✔-a massive stepped tower upon which a temple dedicated to the chief god or

goddess of a Sumerian city was built


Theocracy - ANSWER✔✔-a form of government where God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil

ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities


Code of Hammurabi - ANSWER✔✔-A collection of 282 laws which were enforced under Hammurabi's

Rule. One of the first examples of written law in the ancient civilizations.


Polytheistic - ANSWER✔✔-Belief in more than one god


Cuneiform - ANSWER✔✔-"wedge-shaped." A system of writing developed by the Sumerians that

consisted of wedge-shaped impressions made by a reed stylus on clay tablets


Epic of Gilgamesh - ANSWER✔✔-an epic poem from Mesopotamia, and among the earliest known works

of literary writing.


Egypt: Old Kingdom - ANSWER✔✔-Encompassed the 3rd through the 6th dynasties of Egyptian kings,

when the largest pyramids of Egypt's history where built.


Egypt: Middle Kingdom - ANSWER✔✔-A new period of stability lasting from 2055-1650 B.C.

Characterized by a new concern on part of the pharaohs for the people.


Pyramids - ANSWER✔✔-quadrilateral masonry mass having smooth, steeply sloping sides, meeting at an

apex, used as a tomb


Mummification - ANSWER✔✔-making a dead body into a mummy by embalming and drying


Hyksos - ANSWER✔✔-a nomadic people who conquered and ruled ancient Egypt between the 13th and

18th dynasties; believed to have been a Semitic people that originally migrated into Egypt from Asia


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