first quiz

Today we took our first quiz in Western Civilization. We got to use our blogs on the quiz. This really helped if you took good notes during class and notes from the power point, for the most part i think i did pretty well, and think tat the notes i took were useful while studying.

review for quiz on Friday

other important information to know for the quiz....

• 200,000 years ago the first human species emerged in southwestern Africa 
• "Epic of Gilgamesh"- told of a great flood. Worlds first surviving epic
• Hammurabi's code- created a set of laws 
• earliest Egyptian writing is known as hieroglyphics 
• Papyrus- paper
• wheel and plow 

• Prehistory- a period of time before written records
  Paleolithic Age- (Old Stone Age)
  Neolithic Age- (New Stone Age) advanced tool making and agriculture
  Agriculture Revolution- also known as Neolithic Revolution, more permanent settlements, beginning in Southwestern Asia.
  Cuneiform- Sumerians invented the earliest form of writing known as cuneiform
  Ziggurat- a Sumerian temple built on top of a mountain
  Indo-Europeans- people from the grasslands of the Russian steepe who introduced the horse to the near east. 
• polytheism- studying more than one God
• hieirchers appeared in the village life 
• hitties were one of the groups 

review for quiz

Western Civilization quiz one

Prehistory- a period of time before written records

Paleolithic Age- (Old Stone Age)

Neolithic Age- (New Stone Age) advanced tool making and agriculture

Agriculture Revolution- also known as Neolithic Revolution, more permanent settlements, beginning in Southwestern Asia.

Cuneiform- Sumerians invented the earliest form of writing known as cuneiform

Ziggurat- a Sumerian temple built on top of a mountain

Indo-Europeans- people from the grasslands of the Russian steepe who introduced the horse to the near east.

locate.....Asia Minor, Fertile Crescent, Tigris river, Euphrates river, Mediterranean Sea, and Sumer. 

Jan 20. sick

I was not in school today because i was home with a fever.