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Vocab Module 2 Early River Valley Civilizations
Vocab Module 2 Early River Valley Civilizations
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What is a pharaoh?
A pharaoh was the ruler, or king, of Egypt.
A pharaoh is a metalworker specializing in weaponry.
A pharaoh is the tool egyptians used for farming.
A pharaoh is a kind of pyramid.
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Hieroglyphics are
The original writing system of the Egyptians
The name of a desert
The ruler of a kingdom
A plant used to make paper
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What is an Artisan?
Someone who makes laws
Someone who owns a large farm
Someone who makes things with their hands
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What is a scribe?
A person who writes.
A symbol that is used for an object
All of the above
An ancient tower
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during the bronze age these inventions were created .
tools
bronze jewelry
all of the above
weapons
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Specialization defends that
A worker should be specialized in many different concepts
A worker should take place in many different types of job.
People must work in the career they are better, also if they are bad at it
A worker should be specialized just in one concept
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Who was Hammurabi?
The scribe who create laws
A lowly peasant
Babylonian King, wrote many laws
A king of Egypt
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What are we told that the pyramids were used for?(Growing up)
Temples
Nothing
Observatory
Tombs
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Dynastic Cycle
The temperature of Ms. Bruck's room, and how cold it gets
The Cycle of Life
Cycle of a dynasty
Rules etched into a stone tablet
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What is Feudalism?
A system in how people could gain and hold land
A fancy name for the Byzantine Empire
A Germanic tribe that came to Rome
The Church's power and authority in the Middle Ages
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what is polythsism
belief in afterlife
belief in 1 god
during mummifucaction
belief in many gods
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Define Cuniform
a weird looking uniform
the world's first form of writing
a form of currency
a type of poem
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Subcontinent
Large landmass that is bigger than a continent
Large landmass that is smaller than a continent
Large landmass that is surrounded by a physical boundary
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Who is Narmer
The first king of Ancient Egypt
The Last King of Ancient Egypt
The Shortest King of Ancient Egypt
The longest King of Ancient Egypt
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Example of a complex institution
wooden toys
religion
Mental institution
food gathering
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what was papyrus
used for building homes
a reed like plant they used as paper
something used for food
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The Harrapan civilization, which included Mohenjodaro, developed in the ...?
Indus River Valley
Ganges River Valley
Deccan Plateau
Western Ghats
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A ziggurat is a...
A church
A river in Sumer
A irrigation system
A pyramid-shaped temple
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Barter
To eat
A type of native american
to Trade one good for another
I see you
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What is a dynasty?
oracle bones
Ancient period
a line of rulers from the same family
dynastic cycle
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A city and land around it?
Narmer
Empire
Egypt
City-State
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Where was the Fertile Crescent located?
South America
Between Persian Gulf & Mediterranean Sea
Lower Egypt
China River Valley
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Monsoons can be defined as:
Seasonal winds in the Scandinavian Peninsula
Seasonal winds in South East Asia
Seasonal winds in the Arabian Peninsula
Seasonal winds in the Indian sub-continent
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Artisan
Old person
Worker
A type of art
Art person
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Mesopatamia was the land around the
Nile River
Tigrus and Euphrates rivers
Indus River
Huang He River
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What was a delta
Ocean
River
Area of sediment deposited at the mouth of the river
Lake
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What is an empire?
A castle
A group of many different lands under one ruler
Something that falls to an evil guy
Becoming powerful in your house
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What are Oracle bones ?
Magical bones
are animal bones used to consult the many gods.
Last night BBQ dinner bones
I don't remember
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Cultural Diffusion
Feed America Only Committee
having limits or bounds.
the spread of the beliefs & social activities of one culture to others
Hurricane Dorain
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What was the Mandate of Heaven?
A set of laws that were dictated from the gods
The name of a legendary dragon from Chinese mythology
What the Ancient Chinese called their king
A concept that said rulers were given authority to rule from the gods
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What is loess?
type of writing
Yellow soil
yellow water
yellow sand
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why was mummification important
It was for fertilization
It was used for decoration
It helped guide the spirit in the afterlife
It helped to ward off intruder or animals