Introduction to World Civilization

Yanıt Açıklaması: Andean civilization is one of the early autonomous civilizations in South America.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Imhotep was an important scientist and priest in the Old Kingdom period

Yanıt Açıklaması: Except for the the option A, the rest are characteristics of Egyptianism

Yanıt Açıklaması: In 1286 BCE, during the reign of Ramses II in Egypt  that war finally broke out between Egyptians and the Hittites. The battle took place on the plane to the south of the city of Kadesh.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Macedonia is the correct answer.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Near Sardis the Lydian and Persian armies engaged in a battle. When the Lydian army lost, Babylonian documents report that Croesus was killed after being held captive, and a picture on a vase depicts Croesus as being burnt on top of wood. Regardless of whether Cyrus killed the Lydian king right away or befriended him, as Herodotus (who lived sixty years after Croesus) reports, these philosophically beautiful words were written by the Greek: “When asked by Cyrus, “Croesus, who advised you to attack my territories and meet me as an enemy not a friend?” Croesus said, “King, this is because of your good and my bad luck. The god of the Greeks is to blame, who gave me the arrogance to attack you. No one is crazy enough to choose war rather than peace. During peace, sons lay the fathers into the grave; whereas during war, the fathers lay the sons in the grave…” These answers appealed to Cyrus and he sat beside him and loosened his ties. The correct answer is B.

Yanıt Açıklaması: According to some western scholars explain  Africanist look and Afro-centrist look that they both   look at material facts   of Egypt however  Africanists express their views objectively      whereas Afro centrists express  their views ideologically.53

Yanıt Açıklaması: The Hellenic Civilization dates 750 BCE.  Right answer is "D".

Yanıt Açıklaması: Egyptologists before the discovery of the Rosetta Stone (found in 1799) were unable to decipher the hieroglyphic writings of the Egyptians. They could read and translate other civilization’s records, but the enigmatic Egyptian hieroglyphics were obscured for many years. The correct answer is D.

Yanıt Açıklaması: An empire is a state of large size exercising political dominion over others, with or without latter’s consent. Thus, the Ottoman Empire was ruling over other nations during almost 5 centuries, from 1453 till 1920.

Yanıt Açıklaması: As Sumerian towns grew into cities, the people needed a way to keep track of business transactions, ownership rights, and government records. Around 3300 BCE the Sumerians began to use picture symbols marked into clay tablets to keep their records. The correct answer is A.

Yanıt Açıklaması: transnational community

Yanıt Açıklaması: During their daily lives, the older folks prepared for sleep by praying to one of their gods, in the Egyptian case, the sun god Ra or god of the underworld, afterlife and the dead Osiris, or variants of the relations of the gods. The correct answer is B.

Yanıt Açıklaması: There arose a reformer king, Telipinu, who finished the civil war and took the throne in 1535 BCE. His first major challenge was to bring an end to dynastic succession conflicts. Therefore, he declared a law (known to history as the Edict of Telipinu) which concluded that the first male child born from the first wife of the king would be designated to ascend to the throne, primogeniture; if such a child was not available, then the next male child would become the king. If a king had no male child at all, then his eldest daughter’s son would become the subsequent king. This law, which King Telipinu issued with the approval of the Pankush, the Hittite Council of Nobles, was applied henceforth and it regulated Hittite ascension to the throne.

Yanıt Açıklaması: i. Lydians were involved in political developments in the east.     iii.They became rich because of the natural resources found in their kingdom.   iv.They established economic and cultural relations with Greeks.     v. They introduced the first coin system.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Options A and B are related to Afro-centrists Options C and D are to deny that Egyptian civilization does not belong to Africa

Yanıt Açıklaması: Religion, wealth and power are among the attributes that belong to the cultural system of civilization.

Yanıt Açıklaması: G. Sutton catalogues that the entire region now known as the Sahara was wet and strewn with lakes and rivers.

Yanıt Açıklaması: This was a period of organized trade that is called the Age of Assyrian Trade Colonies. Trading, which had previously taken place in an unsystematic manner, was made systematic through the formation of independent trading colonies, established in Anatolia, known as karum , trading posts that flourished from the 20th to the 18the centuries BCE. An Assyrian governor administered about 10 karums or trading posts in Anatolia, residing in Kanesh which was the leading karum and located near the modern Kayseri. The correct answer is D.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Foundation of the cities of Ur and Lagash by the Sumerians marked the official beginning of civilization