Prehistory
The oldest stone age period
What is Paleolithic?
Farming
What rivers were important in forming the civilization of ancient Sumer?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
Who is known as the father of the Hebrews?
Who is Abraham?
What river helped build the Egyptian civilization?
What is the Nile?
Means Middle Stone Age
What is Mesolithic?
Because there was lots of food, this developed to keep records:
What is writing?
The type of writing developed in ancient Sumer:
What is cuneiform?
They worshiped one God and this is known as:
The term for kind in Egypt
What is Pharaoh?
Climate change during the Paleolithic time period
What is the end of the Ice Age?
Made out of clay, these stored and protected extra food:
What are pots?
The pyramidal shaped buildings for worship in Sumer:
What are ziggurats?
The first man and woman:
Who are Adam and Eve?
The writing system in Egypt
What is hieroglyphics?
The name of the land now submerged under the sea as the ice melted and sea levels rose in Europe:
What is Doggerland?
Found high in the Alps, it was first thought he was a murder victim:
Who is the Ice man or Otzi?
Statues made of rich people who looked like they were talking with the gods:
What are votives?
He was told to build an ark
Who is Noah?
Burial tombs for the Egyptians
What are pyramids??
The men were called ___ and the women were called ____ during the paleolithic time period.
What are hunters and gatherers?
Used to stuff shoes and even woven for cloaks
What is grass?
Polytheistism
They were destroyed by fire because the cities were so wicked
What are Sodom and Gomorrah?
The reason many Hebrews traveled to Egypt
What is hunger?