Terms
Egypt
Mesopotamia
Greece
Four Eras
100
An idea,custom or event that has been placed in the wrong period of time.
What is an anachronism?
100
Because it provides irrigation water and fertile soil due to annual floods.
Why is Egypt is said to be the “gift of the Nile”?
100
A Babylonian King who united all of Mesopotamia under his 43 year reign.
Who is Hammurabi?
100
The name for slaves in ancient Sparta.
What is a helot?
100
The long period up to circa 3500 BC before written records were made and kept.
What is 'prehistory'?
200
The arranging of events in the order that they occured
What is chronological order?
200
The name of a pharaoh enclosed in an oval shape.
What is a cartouche?
200
Sumer
What is known as the world's first civilisation?
200
A sovereign state consisting of an autonomous city.
What is a city-state?
200
Industrialism, the Space age, the World Wars and the conquest of the Americas.
List four events from the Modern era.
300
A source of evidence from the time period being studied.
What is a primary source?
300
The key to deciphering hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
300
'Land between the rivers.'
What does the Greek word 'Mesopotamia' mean?
300
A Greek historian who proved a major source of information on the Second Persian Wars.
Who is Herodotus?
300
The dark ages occured in Europe.
What occured in Europe during the Middle Ages?
400
The degree to which a source serves as an example or type for others of the same classification.
What is 'representativeness'?
400
Two textual accounts of Ramesses II's campaign against the Hittites.
What are the Bulletin and the Poem?
400
An Assyrian King who came to the throne in 883 BC.
Who is Ashurnasirpal II?
400
Kings of Persia during the Persian Wars.
Who are Darius and Xerxes?
400
Historians rely on archaeology to work out what life was like during this period.
Where does knowledge of Prehistoric times come from?
500
To strengthen or support with other evidence; to make more certain.
What is corroboration?
500
Qadesh was the key to northern Syria and was the traditional focus of military resistance.
Why was Qadesh important to the Egyptians?
500
The Tigris and the Euphrates.
Name the two rivers in Mesopotamia.
500
He persuaded the Athenians to build a formidable navy between the Persian Wars.
Who is Themistocles?
500
The fall of Classical Civilisations.
What determines the end of Ancient Times?
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