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What did a scribe do?
What does Gilgamesh want?
Chapter 2-3 WH
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What does Gilgamesh want?
To become a god.
To be Immortal.
To have control over the world.
To get Enkidu back.
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What did a scribe do?
A personal writing assistant for the king.
Person who would write on animals.
Magical hieroglyphics who would write them selves.
Animal who would write on people.
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What was Epic of Gilgamesh?
Highest position in society
A king
pictograms
Oldest epic in the world
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Sargon I was the leader of which empire?
Babylon
Assyria
Neo-Babylon
Akkad
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Where did the homo habilis live?
Australia
Africa
Europe
Asia
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What is cuneiform?
A landscape
A tool
An Animal
A method of writing
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Culture is
beliefs and customs of a group of people
not passed on from person to person
overrated
an eight-letter word
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The name homo habilis means...
Artist Man (cave painter)
Skillful Man (toolmaker)
Wise Man (language user)
Upright Man (bi-ped)
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What is culture?
a set of rituals
a people's unique way of life
a people's art and music
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How did Homo Sapiens Sapiens travel across water?
Boat
They Swam
Ferry
Using land Bridges
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what does a scribe do
write something fro somebody
makes everybody laugh
build architecture
defend his land
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Prehistory means
A scientist who studies the past.
A record of events from early to late.
The time before written records.
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Who was Hammurabi?
An unjust king of Babylon
Hawaii’s original emperor
A British king in the 1800s
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Epic of Gilgamesh
Indus River Valley
Huang He (Yellow) River Valley
Tigris and Euphrates River Valley
Nile River Valley
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Why is the Epic of Gilgamesh so important?
Shows how to become immortal
Is about friendship
Is oldest written story
Tells of Great Flood
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Who is Gilgamesh?
A wildman
The survivor of a great flood
The king of Uruk
The guardian of the Cedar Forest
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Period where tools , weapons remain from prehistoric times are mainly of stone.
Paleolithic Age
old Stone Age
New Stone Age
Stone Age
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What was the first ever civilization?
Mesopotamia
Olmec
Aztec
Egypt
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What is Mesopotamia?
a fertile valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
a desert city in Tibet
a fertile valley between the Caucasus and Ural mountains
a desert city in Egypt
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What was NOT a material prehistoric people used to make tools?
Antlers
Stone
Plastic
Shells
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What is a civilization?
A civilization is a permanent settlement.
A civilization is a place where animals live.
A civilization has a lot of people.
A civilization is a more advanced mammoth house.
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What civilizations did Hammurabi rule over
Egypt
Mesopotamia and Babylon
India and Mesopotamia
Asia and Babylon
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A ziggurat is a
Temple
Palace
Kingdom
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What is a cuneiform?
The Egyptians form of writing
None of the above
The sumerians form of writing
The Acadians form of writing
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What is the definition of migrate?
A family member who lived in the past.
To travel from one place to another.
The buying and selling of goods.
A pattern of weather.
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what did homo erectus mean?
smart man
tighty man
upright man
handy man
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Who ruled an empire?
Merchants
Presidents
Kings
Cavemen
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Who conquered Sumer?
Donald Trump
Hitler
Akkadians
Mesopotamia
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Homo erectus discovered...
hunting
tools
migration
fire
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What empire did Sargon rule?
Akkadians
Chaldeans
Sargonians
Babylonians
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What is Homo sapiens?
a species of Great Ape
the earliest anatomically modern human species
a group of prehistoric humans
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What is Ziggurat?
Center of the city-states
A massive stepped tower with a temple on top
The valley between Tigris and Euphrates river
A massive smooth tower with a temple on top
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Species that was the first to make stone tools
Cro-Magnons
Homo Erectus
Homo Habilis
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A civilization is..
the process of trying to acquire or develop a skill.
a nation with its own government, occupying a territory.
a refined understanding or appreciation of culture.
a big group of people working together to build a society.
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prehistory
pottery
the period of time before written records
a book
a time in history
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What tools did Homo Sapiens Neanderthals make?
knives
Spear points
Scrapers
All of the above
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Main rivers of ancient Mesopotamia
Indus and Yellow
Tigris and Euphrates
Niger and Nile
Amazon and Euphrates
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Define Population
Animals and plants which have varying habitats
Is a group of individuals which lives in the same area.
A population is a group of living and non living things.
Is a cycle that contains a frog connected to other species.
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What is population?
The number of flowers.
The total number of persons inhabiting a country, city ....
The number of childrens.
the number of colours in the world.
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Prehistory describes
From 2 million B.C. to 10,000 B.C.
Everything previous to written history.
From 10,000 B.C. to 5,000 B.C.
Everything after written history
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What was Hammurabi known for
His murders
His slaves
His cats
His code
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What is cuneiform?
a system of writing developed by the Sumerians
a trade system based on conifer seeds
a manuscript developed by the Polynesians
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Cuneiform was the first ______________.
form of writing
first french fry
first restaurant
form of clay
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What Is Homo Sapiens Main Ability?
Advanced tools Like Bows, Spears, Etc.
They Created Many Things That Would Make things Easier
Went In Groups and Hunted
Sat On The Couch and Ate Chips and Cookies.
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Define reform
to make change to benefit ones self
to make change in order to bring about improvement
to not make change
