Prehistory
What is Prehistory?
What is the period of the human past for which we have no written records.
This word means, "an item worked on or made by man."
What is an artifact.
What is, "a pointed stick used for writing on wax or clay."
What is a Stylus.
What is the Nile River.
What is mankinds first civilization?
What is Sumer.
What was left behind by our oldest ancestors before written language?
What is paintings, body ornaments, and settlements.
What is, "a person who studies the traces left by mankind during the years before writing."
What is a Paleontologist.
What is, "a tool used for water that is comprised of a long pole with a forked stick, with a bucket on one end and a counterweight on the other."
What is a Shaduf.
What is the name for the symbols and pictures used as writing in ancient Egypt?
What are Hieroglyphs.
What religion is Sumer classified as?
What is Polytheistic.
What three parts do Paleontologists divide the Stone Age into?
What is Stone Age, Bronze Age, and the Iron Age.
What is, "a person who finds and digs up artifacts."
What is an Archaeologist.
What is, "a line of rulers who belong to a single family."
What is a Dynasty.
Credited with making the first paper out of this material...
What is Papyrus.
What form of writing was used in ancient Sumer?
What is Cuneiform.
What two parts do other scientists divide the Stone Age into?
What is the Paleolithic (Old Age) and Neolithic (New Age).
What is, "a person who studies human cultures and behaviors among ancient people."
What is an Anthropologist.
What is, "a large, stone coffin."
What is a Sarcophagus.
How many dynasties in total were there before the fall of ancient Egypt?
What is 30 dynasties.
What was the first written epic to come from Sumer?
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh.
What did cave men start to do in the New Age that would lead to a new era?
What is form settlements, learn to farm, and build cities.
What is, "a well-reasoned idea that explains facts, events, or phenomenon."
What is a Theory.
What is, "a wading bird related to the heron."
What is Ibis.
How did the Egyptians divide the calendar?
What is into 12 months and 365 days, a system we still use to this day.
Who defeated Sumer and later Syria.
Who is Sargon.