History
His 101 Midterm study guide – answers for this and the midterm will come from chapter reading/study guides.
1) What is the species name of modern humans?
2) The triangular indentations used for the script of Sumerians are called
A)
B) 3) Which metal was used for tools as early as 7500 b.c.e.?
C)
D) 4) What common characteristic was shared by primal civilizations in Egypt, Sumer, China, and India?
E)
F) 5) Historians estimate that the existence of Homo sapiens sapiens goes back how many years?
G)
H) 6) What material began to be used as the Neolithic gave way to the dawn of civilization?
A)
B) 7) The first true city to arise in Mesopotamia, in the fourth millennium B.C.E., was
A)
B) 8) Which of the following developments marked man’s evolution from prehistory to history?
C)
D) 9) Sumerian cuneiform was used for writing long after Sumer disappeared because
E)
F) 10) What factor helps to explain Egypt becoming politically unified earlier than Mesopotamia?
G)
H) 11) Which of the following technologies was NOT used by the earliest Western civilizations?
I)
J) 12) The Babylonian Empire was largely the work of its sixth king,
K)
L) 13) Which of the following issues does NOT seem to have been covered by Hammurabi’s code?
M)
N) 14) Sargon II was significant as the
O)
P) 15) In what field did the Assyrians make the greatest contribution?
Q)
R) 16) After the eleventh century B.C.E., what metal came into general use in the Middle East for weapons and tools?
S)
T) 17) Which phrase best describes the Hebrew concept of divine power?
U)
V) 18) Who was Israel’s first king?
W)
X) 19) Why was Hammurabi’s code significant?
Y) A) It established a common system of justice throughout the Babylonian empire.
Z)
AA) 20) What was the most important long-term effect of the migrations of 1630–1550 b.c.e.?
AB)
AC) 21) What impact did widespread use of iron have on the rise and fall of Near Eastern empires?
AD)
AE) 22) As an
1) What is the species name of modern humans?
2) The triangular indentations used for the script of Sumerians are called
A)
B) 3) Which metal was used for tools as early as 7500 b.c.e.?
C)
D) 4) What common characteristic was shared by primal civilizations in Egypt, Sumer, China, and India?
E)
F) 5) Historians estimate that the existence of Homo sapiens sapiens goes back how many years?
G)
H) 6) What material began to be used as the Neolithic gave way to the dawn of civilization?
A)
B) 7) The first true city to arise in Mesopotamia, in the fourth millennium B.C.E., was
A)
B) 8) Which of the following developments marked man’s evolution from prehistory to history?
C)
D) 9) Sumerian cuneiform was used for writing long after Sumer disappeared because
E)
F) 10) What factor helps to explain Egypt becoming politically unified earlier than Mesopotamia?
G)
H) 11) Which of the following technologies was NOT used by the earliest Western civilizations?
I)
J) 12) The Babylonian Empire was largely the work of its sixth king,
K)
L) 13) Which of the following issues does NOT seem to have been covered by Hammurabi’s code?
M)
N) 14) Sargon II was significant as the
O)
P) 15) In what field did the Assyrians make the greatest contribution?
Q)
R) 16) After the eleventh century B.C.E., what metal came into general use in the Middle East for weapons and tools?
S)
T) 17) Which phrase best describes the Hebrew concept of divine power?
U)
V) 18) Who was Israel’s first king?
W)
X) 19) Why was Hammurabi’s code significant?
Y) A) It established a common system of justice throughout the Babylonian empire.
Z)
AA) 20) What was the most important long-term effect of the migrations of 1630–1550 b.c.e.?
AB)
AC) 21) What impact did widespread use of iron have on the rise and fall of Near Eastern empires?
AD)
AE) 22) As an