Investigating the Ancient Past
Deep Time
Ancient Greece (+ Greco-Persian Wars)
Ancient Egypt
Random History
100
What does BCE stand for?
Before Common Era
100
What were the 2 animal teeth that were on the tooth necklace?
Kangaroo and Wallaby
100
What were the Greek city-states called?
Polis
100
Who was the famous boy king of Ancient Egypt who ruled around 1332–1323 BC.
Tutankhamun
100
Gladiators were warriors from which ancient civilisation?
Ancient Rome
200
Which is longer ago?
500BCE
6000BCE
6000BCE
200
How many teeth were in the kangaroo necklace?
327
200
Who led the Greeks to victory in the Battle of Marathon?
Miltiades
200
Who was the archaeologist who discovered Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922.
Howard Carter
200
How old was Abrahan Lincoln when he was assassinated?
56
300
What is the difference between a secondary source and a primary source?
Primary Source: from the time being studied
Secondary Source: from AFTER the time being studied
300
What did historians originally think the bodies at Rock Flat Creek were?
European Settlers OR Murder Victim
300
How many soldiers did the Greeks have in the Battle of Marathon?
11,000 (10,000 Athenians and 1,000 Plataeans)
300
What is the term for preserving dead bodies for the afterlife, used on Tutankhamun after his death.
Mummification
300
What years was World War 1?
1914-1918
400
What's the difference between BC and BCE?
Before Christ
Before Common Era
400
How do Aboriginal peoples tell time?
Observing the patterns of the sky
400
What was the last battle in the first Greco-Persian wars?
Battle of Marathon
400
Tutankhamun changed his name from Tutankhaten to show he had returned to worship of this god.
Amun
400
How many Easter Island heads are there on Easter Island?
~800-1000
500
What methods do archaeologists use to find ancient remains?
Stratigraphy, carbon dating, radar
500
What are TWO things the red ochre used for?
Rituals/ceremonies, painting
500
Which happened first:
1) the war between the titans and the gods
2) the war between the giants and the gods
1) the war between the titans and the gods
500
Name one major city of Ancient Egypt
Thebes, Memphis, Amarna
500
When was Tajikistan founded?
1929
600
Order these ages:
The Renaissance
Bronze Age
Industrial Age
Medieval Age
Bronze Age
Medieval Age
Industrial Age
The Renaissance
600
When were the Rock Flat Creek skeletons unearthed?
1991
600
Who is this God?
Apollo
600
After Tutankhamun died without heirs, this vizier became pharaoh before Horemheb.
Ay
600
Name 3 dream-time stories
Rainbow Serpent
Tiddalick the Frog
Eaglehawk and Crow