A primary account, or first hand account, of an event.
What is a Primary Source
100
True or False: BCE is the same as AD
What is FALSE
100
What was the major contribution of the Phoenicians?
What is The Alphabet
100
The discovery of this item helped historians translate hieroglyphics
What is Rosetta Stone
100
Societies of people who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts, for food.
What is Hunter-Gatherer Societies
200
The division of society by rank or class
Example: Egyptian Society
What is Social Hierarchy
200
A solar calendar is based on what?
What is The Sun
200
What is the basic political unit of Sumer?
City-State
200
These Egyptian rulers were thought to be both human and god
What is a Pharaoh
200
People were thought to have migrated from what country?
What is Africa (East Africa)
300
The spread of ideas from one culture to another
What is Cultural Diffusion
300
A lunar calendar measures time using the __________
What is The Moon
300
What type of religion did many sumerians believe in?
Polytheism
300
What type of structures are Egyptians most known for building?
What is a Pyramid
300
Division of work into a number of separate tasks to be performed by different workers
What is Division of Labor
400
The change from hunting and gathering societies to farming societies
What is Agricultural Revolution
400
A device that measures the time of a particular day by the position of the sun
What is The Sundial
400
Who created the first empire?
Who is Sargon
400
What did Egyptians invent to write on?
What is Papyrus
400
What is the difference between archeology and history?
History is the study of the past and Archeology is the study of past based on what people left behind.
500
Name 1 example of a Primary Source and 1 example of a Secondary Source
Primary: Artifact, Journal, Photo, Recording, etc.
Secondary: Textbook, Articles, etc.
500
Put these dates in the correct order:
2000 AD
750 BCE
99 CE
16 BC
750 BCE, 16 BC, 99 CE, 2000 AD
500
Name 2 Fertile Crescent Empires
Babylonian
Assyrian
Hittite
Chaldean
Phoenician
500
What is something that both Mesopotamia and Egypt had in common?
A) No written language
B) Located near large rivers
C) Women had the same rights as men
B) Located near large rivers
*EXTRA 100 POINTS IF YOU CAN NAME ALL 3 RIVERS!
500
During what time do most people believe that the first people were on earth?
a) 3,000 BCE-1,000 BCE
b) Before 4,000 BCE
c) 1000 CE- Present