UNIT 1-PREHISTORY AND THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION
WHO STUDIES EVIDENCE ABOUT PEOPLE AND THEIR WAY OF LIFE BACK THEN?
ARCHEOLOGISTS
WHICH WAS THE FIRST GROUP TO SETTLE IN SOUTHERN MESOPOTAMIA?
SUMERIANS
HOW MANY PEOPLE LIVED IN ANCIENT INDIA AT ITS HEIGHT?
5,000,000
ROME BORROWED MANY IDEAS FROM WHICH CULTURE?
GREECE
WHAT PERIOD LASTED UNTIL ABOUT 8,500 BCE?
THE PALEO-INDIAN PERIOD
WHAT DOES PREHISTORIC MEAN?
THE TIME BEFORE PEOPLE STARTED WRITING
WHAT DOES THE NAME MESOPOTAMIA MEAN?
"LAND BETWEEN 2 RIVERS"
WHICH RIVER VALLEY WAS HOME TO THE FIRST CIVILIZATION IN THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT?
INDUS
WHICH RIVER DID ROME BEGIN?
THE TIBER RIVER
IN WHICH PART OF THE STATE ARE MANY OF LOUISIANA'S SALT DOMES FOUND?
SOUTHERN
WHERE HAS THE EARLIEST EVIDENCE OF MODERN HUMANS BEEN FOUND?
AFRICA
WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE LARGEST SUMERIAN CITY?
URUK
WHO CONTROLLED THE GOVERNMENT IN ANCIENT CHINA?
THE MOST POWERFUL FAMILY
WHO WAS THE LAST EMPEROR OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE?
CONSTANTINE
WHEN DID THE ARCHAIC PERIOD START?
8000 BCE
WHAT IS ANOTHER NAME FOR THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION?
WHAT PROVIDED A NATURAL BARRIER AGAINST INVASION?
THE SAHARA DESERT
WHAT FIRST CAUSED VILLAGERS ALONG THE YELLOW RIVER TO UNIFY?
THEY WANTED TO SOLVE FLOODING PROBLEMS
WHEN DID THE VISIGOTHS ATTACK ROME?
476 CE
HOW OLD IS POVERTY POINT?
3000 YEARS OLD
NOMADS
WHY IS UPPER EGYPT BELOW LOWER EGYPT ON THE MAP?
IT HAS A HIGHER ELEVATION
GREECE IS LOCATED ON WHICH PENINSULA?
AEGEAN
WHEN DID THE ROMAN REPUBLIC BEGIN?
509 BCE
WHAT DID THE BOW AND ARROW REPLACE?
THE ATLATL