Dates to Remember
This was the beginning of farming.
What is circa 10,000 B.C.?
An ancient civilization in modern day Northern India.
A culture that builds and supports cities.
What is a civilization?
The period of human life on Earth before the invention of writing.
What is prehistory?
This was the Latin word for "let it be so," drawn from Mary's response to the Angel of the Annunciation as translated into Latin in the Vulgate Bible.
What is fiat?
When the first cities appeared.
Circa 7,000-6,000 B.C.
An ancient civilization that formed on the banks of the Yellow River in modern day Northern China.
What is the Shang Dynasty?
Greek for "the land between two rivers."
What is Mesopotamia?
From the Greek word meaning "new stone."
What is the Neolithic New Stone Age?
God's taking on the nature of man in the person of Jesus of Nazareth.
What is the Incarnation?
These are the years that came before Christ's birth.
What is B.C.?
This measures all events that came after it and before it.
What is the Incarnation?
A binding agreement between two or more individuals to cooperate in a mutual way.
What is a covenant?
From the Greek word "old stone."
What is the Paleolithic Old Stone Age?
The study of what people did and what happened to them based on written records.
What is history?
This era came before the Neolithic Period.
What is the Paleolithic Period?
During this time, human beings began to engage in agriculture and domesticated animals.
What is the Neolithic New Stone Age?
Latin phrase meaning "In the year of our Lord," that we use to measure time.
What is Anno Domini?
The art of cultivating crops and domesticating herd animals for human food and use.
What is agriculture?
A scientist who studies the evidence of the human past.
What is an archaeologist?
These are the rivers where the oldest 4 civilizations we discovered.
1.Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (Mesopotamia)
2.Nile River (Egyptians)
3.Indus River Valley
4.Yellow River (Shang Dynasty).
This is concerned with what man has written about themselves and their societies.
What is history?
An ancient civilization that formed on the banks of the Nile River.
What is Egypt?
The science of designing and raising houses and other buildings.
What is architecture?
What is a Paleontologist?