World Civilizations: First Civilizations And Rise Of Empires

What were characteristics of Homo Habilis?

• A.

  They were upright, fire starting, food cooking, animal hunting, strategic, tool making, and communicative species of the human race.

• B.

  "Consciously thinking human"; they used sophisticated tools and were the first group to bury the dead.

• C.

  More advanced species of human; chose what they did, communicated with language, had a sense of justice, a need for pleasure, an imagination, and self awareness.

• D.

  An ancestor of Homo sapiens; characterized by its ability to make and use tools

The Paleolithic age, also known as the "Old Stone Age" is a long period of what development before the development of agriculture?

The Neolithic age, "New Stone Age", refers to the early stages of what society?

What did the Tigris and Euphrates do for the Mesopotamian civilization?

Who were the Sumerians?

• A.

  Semitic people under the ruler of Sargon of Akkad

• B.

  Mesopotamian temples

• C.

  The earliest Mesopotamian society

• D.

  Members of the Semitic people in the Bible

What were Mesopotamian temples that were meant to honor the gods?

• A.

  Amorites

• B.

  Hammurabi

• C.

  Sargon

• D.

  Ziggurats