History 101
What is the difference between primary and secondary sources?
Primary sources are records produced during the time period being studied and often by the people being involved in the event being studied. Secondary sources are records that explain the or interpret primary sources.
What is name of the oldest known civilization?
The Sumerians.
What is a theocracy?
a people group governed directly by God.
What geographic feature united the city states of Ancient Egypt?
The Nile River
Nineveh was the capital of what empire?
The Assyrian Empire
What separates history from prehistory?
The development of writing.
Cuneiform
This civilization was founded by Abraham.
The Hebrews
This writing system did the Egyptians use?
Hieroglyphics
Under what empire did the Jewish people experience "the scattering" or diaspora.
The Chaldean Empire
Most of what is known about prehistory comes from this field.
What is archaeology.
The god Baal was worshiped by which civilization?
The Phoenicians.
Ancient Egypt is historically divided into how many periods? Name them.
1. Old Kingdom
2. Middle Kingdom
3. New Kingdom
What Prophet was sent to Nineveh to preach repentance?
Jonah
What are the four themes of civilization?
1. Justice
2. Citizenship
3. Power
4. Environment
The Amorite civilization was centered in what capital city?
Babylon
What two weapons did the Hittites use to expand their empire into Asia Minor?
Iron weapons and horse-drawn chariots.
Egypt had was at its largest under the rule of ______.
Thutmose III
Under what ruler did the Persian Empire expand all the way to Greece in the west.
Darius the Great
Where does the creation mandate appear in scripture and what does this command include?
1.) Genesis 1:28
2.) the work of maximizing the usefulness of the earth and all of its parts, essentially pursuing the advancement of civilization.
What three things did rivers provide to early civilizations?
1.) Water
2.) Food
3.) Transpiration
The Phoenicians gained wealth by two natural resources, what are they?
1.) Harvesting mollusk
2.) Purple dye obtained from the mollusk
_________ one of Egypt’s most important deities, was god of the underworld. He also symbolized death, resurrection, and the cycle of Nile floods that Egypt relied on for agricultural fertility.
Who is Osiris.
This Persian ruler helped the Israelites to re-establish their land.
Cyrus the Great