Historians & Worldview
Records produced during the time being studied that historians examine firsthand.
What are primary sources?
The writing system made by wedge impressions on clay tablets in Sumer.
What is cuneiform?
The river whose annual flooding made Egyptian agriculture possible.
What is the Nile River?
The fortified hilltop in a Greek polis is called the _______.
What is the acropolis?
The Indian ruler who promoted Buddhism and built stupas across his empire.
Who is Asoka (Ashoka)?
The process of combining evaluated pieces of evidence into a coherent account of the past.
What is historical synthesis?
The ruler who established the first known empire at Akkad.
Who is Sargon of Akkad?
The period when the great pyramids (e.g., Khufu’s) were built is called the _______ Kingdom.
What is the Old Kingdom?
The Carthaginian general who invaded Italy by crossing the Alps.
Who is Hannibal?
The trade network connecting China to the Mediterranean world.
What is the Silk Road?
The Christian doctrine that teaches God governs and sustains history.
What is divine providence?
The Babylonian king remembered for an early written code of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
The empire whose king Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Jerusalem and later fell to Cyrus.
What is the Neo‑Babylonian Empire?
The Greek leader associated with Athens’ Golden Age and large civic projects.
Who is Pericles?
The Incan system of knotted strings used for accounting and record‑keeping.
What is the quipu?
The three basic types of primary resources historians use.
What are artifacts, tradition, and written records?
Temple towers with terraced levels built in Mesopotamia.
What are ziggurats?
The Persian administrative provinces overseen by satraps were called these.
What are satrapies?
The policy that legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire (313 AD).
What is the Edict of Milan?
The Mesoamerican people who built Tenochtitlan and practiced chinampa agriculture.
Who are the Aztecs?
The Bible verse often cited as the Creation Mandate calling humans to “subdue” the earth.
What is Genesis 1:28?
The seafaring traders who developed an early alphabet and purple dye.
Who are the Phoenicians?
The Persian prophet who founded the religion that worshiped Ahura Mazda.
Who is Zoroaster?
The term describing spread and blending of Greek culture after Alexander’s conquests.
What is Hellenistic?
The Amazonian/Andean Andean empire that built an extensive road system and used mit’a labor.
What is the Inca Empire?