Vocab Terms 1
God’s love and protection given to mankind: a strength or power beyond human nature given by God to human beings.
What is Grace
A culture that builds and supports cities.
What is civilization
This is what A.D. stand for.
What is A.D. stands for Anno Domini, a Latin phrase meaning, “in the year of our lord.”
The most important Paleolithic discovery?
What is fire.
The art of cultivating crops, and domesticating herd animals for human food and use.
What is agriculture
The latin word for “let it be so,”
What is fiat
The New Stone Age (from Greek neo-, “new” and lithos, “stone”) the New Stone Age).
What is neolithic
The reason why we divide history into A.D. and B.C.?
What is we divide history between A.D. and B.C. to indicate that the Incarnation of Christ fundamentally changed history and is so the central event of history.
Mesopotamia is the land between what two rivers?
What is the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
The science of designing and raising houses and other buildings.
What is architecture
God’s taking on the nature of man in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. (From the Latin “in carne, “in the flesh.”)
What is the incarnation
The Old Stone Age (from Greek palai-, “old,” and lithos, “stone”) the Old Stone Age.
What is paleontologist
The reason why prehistory is not the same thing as history?
What is since prehistory refers to the period of human history before the existence of written records, it differs from history, which relies on written records.
This is what B.C. stands for.
What is B.C. stands for Before Christ.
Greek for “the land in the middle of the rivers.” The region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now modern-day Iraq.
What is Mesopotamia
The study of what people did and what happened to them based on written records of past ages.
What is history
A scientist who studies the evidence of all past life, human and nonhuman.
What is paleontologist
The reason why human life in the Neolithic period differed from what it was in the Paleolithic period?
What is human beings in the Paleolithic era lived nomadically, hunting and gathering wild foods. Neolithic people discovered agriculture and formed settled civilizations.
The name for a scientist who studies evidence of the human past (such as tools and ruins of buildings)?
What is archaeologist.
A binding agreement between two or more individuals to cooperate in a mutual task.
What is covenant
The period of human life on Earth before the invention of writing.
What is prehistory
A scientist who studies the evidence of the human past.
What is archaeologist
Name one contribution our Christian civilization received from each of the following civilizations: Mesopotamia and Egypt; Greece; Rome; Israel.
What is Egypt and Mesopotamia contributed to the study of mathematics, astronomy, and architecture.
Greece contributed to the study of philosophy, the rational understanding of the human and natural order. Rome contributed universal law and justice. Israel contributed the Law of God and his commandments.
The title of the chapter we read in your textbook.
What is Introduction: History's Beginnings
The title of your textbook
What is Light to the Nations