Origins of Man
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Ancient Israelites
Bonus
100
The taming of animals and plants for man's use.
What is domestication?
100
Cuneiform
What is wedge-shaped Sumerian writing?
100
The longest river in the world.
What is the Nile?
100
The first MONOTHEISTIC religion.
What is Judaaism?
100
A skilled worker.
What is an artisan?
200
What development is considered the start of history?
What is writing?
200
The area in Mesopotamia where there were good conditions for growing crops.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200
Preparing the dead for the Afterlife.
What is mummification?
200
With whom Abraham made a covenant.
Who is GOD?
200
Something created by a person living in a particular time.
What is a primary source?
300
What happened to the population when people changed from hunter-gatherers to settled farmers.
What is increase?
300
The two important rivers in Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
300
A discovery that made it possible to decipher hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
300
Remembered as the greatest Israelite king.
Who is David?
300
People who kept records for kings, priests and merchants.
What are scribes?
400
What an archaeologist uses when studying PREHISTORY.
What are fossils or artifacts?
400
Irrigation
What is the practice of supplying land with water that comes from another place?
400
The three major kingdoms of ancient Egypt.
What are the New, Middle and Old Kingdoms?
400
The man the Israelites believe they are descended from.
Who is Abraham?
400
A line of rulers that passes power from father to son through generations.
What is a dynasty?
500
The period in which people began to farm instead of hunting and gathering.
What is the NEOLITHIC age?
500
The first army to use iron weapons.
What are Assyrians?
500
United Upper and Lower Egypt.
Who is Narmer (Menes)?
500
The giant killed by David.
Who is Goliath?
500
The most important development in human history.
What is the farming revolution.
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