Studying History
This term refers to a person's beliefs and assumptions used to interpret the world and the events in it.
What is a worldview?
This early period of human history is defined by the use of stone tools and a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, before the development of farming (NOT Stone Age).
What is the Paleolithic Period?
This region, whose name means 'between the rivers,' lay between the Tigris and Euphrates and is often called the cradle of civilization.
What is Mesopotamia?
This system of picture-based writing, carved and painted on tombs and monuments, was used by the ancient Egyptians.
What is hieroglyphics (hieroglyphic writing)?
This term describes belief in and worship of many gods.
What is polytheism?
This term refers to the rigid, hereditary social classes of ancient Indian society that a person was born into and generally could not leave.
What are castes (the caste system)?
This type of source was created by someone who directly witnessed or took part in an event — a letter, a diary, or a photograph.
What is a primary source?
This period follows the Paleolithic and is marked by the rise of farming, permanent settlements, and domesticated animals.
What is the Neolithic Period?
This curved region of fertile farmland stretching from the Persian Gulf through Mesopotamia to Egypt earned this nickname because of its crescent shape and rich soil.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
This term describes a large political unit made up of many different territories or peoples, usually ruled by a single powerful leader.
What is an empire?
This term describes belief in and worship of only one God.
What is monotheism?
This term describes the scattering of a people away from their homeland, such as the Jewish people after being conquered and exiled.
What is a diaspora?
This type of source is created afterward by someone analyzing or describing an event using primary sources as evidence — a textbook or a documentary.
What is a secondary source?
State one key difference between how secular history explains the origins of humanity and how the Bible explains the origin of humanity.
Secular history describes humans emerging gradually through natural processes over long ages, while Genesis describes humanity as directly and deliberately created by God in a short span of time.
This wedge-shaped writing system, pressed into clay tablets with a reed stylus, was developed by the Sumerians and is one of the earliest known forms of writing.
What is cuneiform?
This ruler, who united the Sumerian city-states around 2300 BC, is credited with establishing the first known empire in history.
Who is Sargon (of Akkad)? What is the Akkadian Empire?
This major world religion, which developed in ancient India, includes belief in reincarnation, karma, and a caste-based social structure, and worships many gods.
What is Hinduism?
Name, from highest to lowest, the major castes of the ancient Indian caste system.
What are Brahmins (priests), Kshatriyas (warriors/rulers), Vaishyas (merchants/farmers/traders), and Shudras (laborers/servants) — with the Untouchables (Dalits) considered outside the caste system entirely?
Name these two terms: (1) beliefs, customs, and stories passed down through generations without being written down, and (2) documents, inscriptions, or other written materials.
What are tradition and written records?
Name the four themes historians use to study and describe a civilization.
What are Power, Justice, Environment, and Citizenship?
These massive stepped, pyramid-shaped temple structures were built by the Sumerians and other Mesopotamian peoples as centers of worship (think Tower of Babel).
What are ziggurats?
Name the three major periods of ancient Egyptian history.
Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, New Kingdom
This major world religion, founded in India, teaches that suffering comes from desire and that following the Eightfold Path leads to spiritual liberation.
What is Buddhism?
What is Mr. Ruffin's favorite movie franchise?
Star Wars
What is the memory verse you all are memorizing in your 3rd period class? Have a member of your team say it from memory.
James 1:2-6
Name the eight features historians and archaeologists look for as evidence that a society has become a civilization.
Organized Cities, Job specialization, Religion, Arts, Social Classes, Written Language, Government, Sciences
This Babylonian king is best known for a written code of nearly 300 laws, one of the earliest and most complete legal codes in history.
Who is Hammurabi?
Describe one way the Persian Empire benefited from the civilizations it conquered or absorbed.
Open answer: the Persians adopted administrative systems (such as dividing the empire into satrapies), built on existing infrastructure like roads (the Royal Road), and incorporated ideas such as coinage and legal or religious practices from conquered peoples like the Lydians, Babylonians, and Egyptians.
Name the founder of this religion, and name the term for the state of enlightenment and release from suffering that he taught his followers to seek
Who is Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha)? What is Nirvana?
According to Isaiah 44:28 through 45:13, a Persian king was named specifically, by name, more than 150 years before he was even born, and told he would free a captive people to return home and rebuild their temple. Name that king.
Who is Cyrus (Cyrus the Great)? — This fulfilled prophecy, written long before Cyrus's birth and confirmed by later history, is a common apologetic example used to demonstrate the reliability of Scripture.