Week 1
This is the zero line of longitude.
What is the prime meridian?
This is what B.C. stands for.
What is before Christ?
This sharp stone was used to make knives and arrowheads.
This is the first known written law.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
This is the scientific name for the old stone age.
What is the Paleolithic Era?
This is the zero line of latitude.
What is the equator?
This is what B.C.E. stands for.
What is before the common era?
This is the continent where the earliest form of human life was found.
What is Africa?
These were ancient people who could read and write.
Who were scribes?
This is the scientific name for the new stone age.
What is the Neolithic age?
This is the idea that all of the continents started as one giant landmass and then separated over time.
What is the continental drift theory?
This is what C.E. stands for.
What is the common era?
This is why early humans lived together.
What is for safety?
This is the earliest known form of writing.
This is one of the oldest ancient written tales.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
What is a geologist?
This is what A.D. stands for.
What is anno domini (year of our Lord)?
This is a scientist who studies things who studies things made and used by ancient cultures.
What is an archaeologist?
These are the rivers on either side of Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
This words means the belief in many different gods.
What is polytheistic?
The name of the single super continent.
What is some people wanted a non-religious way to name the different eras?
These are the five reasons that early humans settled near rivers or streams.
What is drinking water, water for crops/irrigation, transportation/trade, fertile land, and food (like fish)?
These are three features of the Mesopotamian city-state.
What are strong walls, leaders called lugals, and class structure?
This is the ancient city of hanging gardens.
What is Babylon?