How to Study History
"FATHER OF HISTORY" in Western culture, 1st HISTORIAN to collect SYSTEMATICALLY, TEST for accuracy, and ARRANGE in well-constructed & VIVID NARRATIVE.
Who is Herodotus (484-425 BC)?
1st PARENTS of HUMANITY, made to love one another, procreate, care for & rule creation. Committed a SIN of disobedience against God & were banished from the Garden of Eden.
The 1st people created in God's likeness and given free will.
Had 3 children named Cain, Abel, and Seth
Lived in the garden of Eden; told by God not to eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge, but they ate it; brought original sin into the world
Who are Adam and Eve?
EARLIEST FORM OF WRITTEN LANGUAGE, created by the Sumerians using symbols, written on a clay tablet with a stylus/reed.
What is Cuneiform?
Known for the UNITING UPPER & LOWER EGYPT, and the establishment of a CAPITAL city in MEMPHIS, the time when the GREAT PYRAMIDS & SPHINX were built.
What is the Old Kingdom (2700-2200BC)?
“This is what the Lord says—
Israel’s King and Redeemer, the Lord Almighty:
I am the first and I am the last;
apart from me there is no God.
What is Isaiah 44:6?
The SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF PAST HUMAN LIFE & CULTURE by recovery & examination of remaining material evidence, such as graves, buildings, tools, and pottery.
What is Archaeology?
First man created by God to be in relationship with God and take care of God's creation whose sin lead to death in the world and separated us from God.
Who is Adam (~5000-4000 BC)?
Ancient REGION BETWEEN the TIGRIS & EUPHRATES Rivers, home of many early civilizations including the Sumerians.
What is Mesopotamia?
EGYPTIAN RIVER, FLOODED regularly & produced RICH SOIL, responsible for SUSTAINING the EGYPTIAN EMPIRE
What is the Nile?
What is a Rainbow?
A WRITER, STUDENT OR SCHOLAR OF HISTORY
What is a Historian?
1st woman, created by God to be in relationship with God and help Adam take care of God's creation whose sin lead to death in the world and separated us from God.
Who is Eve (~5000-4000 BC)?
One of the EARLIEST CIVILIZATIONS in the world, located in MESOPOTAMIA, CREATED 1st WRITTEN LANGUAGE
Who were the Sumerians (~3200 BC)?
Became PHARAOH AT AGE 9, died at 19, amazing tomb and solid gold coffin discovered in 1922 by Howard Carter.
Who was Tutankhamen (1347 BC)?
The Book that gives us God's true history of the universe.
What is the Bible?
OBJECT produced or shaped by HUMAN CRAFT especially a tool, weapon, or ornament ...of archaeological or historical interest
What is an Artifact?
Godly man chosen by God to build an ark to save mankind and land creatures from God's judgment of the world via a global flood.
Who is Noah (~2300 BC)?
Ancient civilization from TURKEY, after the Sumerians, discovered how to CREATE IRON, use of IRON WEAPONS & HORSE DRAWN CHARIOTS made them the dominant civilization when they invaded Mesopotamia.
Who were the Hittites (1600 BC)?
QUEEN OF EGYPT WHO BECAME REGENT when brother/husband died and heir was too young, Oracle prophesied god Amen declared her the true king so she took title of king & she wore the regalia of Pharaoh, known for great monuments and buildings.
Who was Hatshepsut (1490 BC)?
Genesis tells us that every person in the whole world is valuable because each person is made in God's ___________.
What is image?
Bible verse:
Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
What is John 17:3
Bible verse:
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
What is Genesis 1:1?
BONUS:
CRESCENT SHAPED REGION in the Middle East, made fertile by the Tigris, Euphrates & Nile Rivers, land often called the 'CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION' because the fertile soils helped people establish the 1st civilized societies.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
LAST QUEEN OF EGYPT, BECAME PHARAOH when brother/husband was killed, impacted Roman politics, married MARC ANTONY of Rome. Both committed suicide when Egypt defeated by Rome.
Who was Cleopatra (51 BC)?
11 I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: 13 I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
What is Genesis 9:11-13?