Download Ch 2 World History: River Valley Civilizations Definitions

Ch 2 World History: River Valley Civilizations
Definitions:
1. Mesopotamia
9. Nippur
17. Rosetta Stone
2. Bronze
10. Enlil
18. Henry Rawlinson
3. Ziggurat
11. Sargon of Akkad
19. Menes
4. Specialization
12. Ur III Dynasty
20. Old Kingdom
5. Cylinder seal
13. Hammurabi
21. Pharaoh
6. Pictograph
14. Jean Francois Champollion
22. Horus
7. Cuneiform
15. Demotic
23. Middle Kingdom
8. King
16. Hieroglyphic
24. Hyksos
Questions:
1. What prohibited early farmers from becoming civilized
2. Explain how a system of natural levies developed in the Tigris-Euphrates Valley
3. What does the size of a community’s population have to do with the process of
irrigation
4. What risks were involved with the process of irrigation
5. What is the relationship between the production of agricultural surpluses and the
beginning and maintenance of a civilization
6. Compare specialization in Paleolithic and Neolithic communities to specialization in
civilized societies.
7. Why were the beginning years of the civilized era referred to as the “Bronze Age”
8. Why do scholars no think that this Bronze Age label maybe inappropriate
9. What functions which were important to the development of civilization did the priests
fulfill
10. How did the development of irrigation affect the Sumerian social organization
11. How is it that Sumerian farmers become accustomed to a large part of their harvest
being taken away for other users
12. What did peasants receive in return for their grain
13. How did Sumerian priests discover the will of the gods
14. How did the first scribes solve the problem of creating symbols that stood for a person’s
name, an idea, or an action and not just an object that could be pictured in a pictograph
15. How do we mark the boundary between history and prehistory
16. How did the office of Kingship evolve
17. What was the secret of success that Sargon of Akkad enjoyed as an emperor
18. What contribution did the Kings of the Ur III dynasty make to improve imperial
administration
19. How did Hammurabi avoid the problems presented by Sargon’s flaw
20. What two major problems eventually caused the demise of Hammurabi’s empire
21. How do we know that the Egyptians learned to make buildings from the Mesopotamians
22. What characteristics of the Nile made it such a suitable environment for the
development of civilization
23. Why were there relatively few great temples during Egypt’s Old Kingdom
24. What is significance about Sumerian cylinder seal’s being found in several sites in the
Indus River Valley