Historical Methods
What is the name of a source written at the time of the event?
Primary Source
What is the name of the first city-state?
Sumer
What is the greatest natural resource?
Nile River
What is the capital city?
Jerusalem
Name the two religions created in India.
Buddhism and Hinduism
What divides the timeline?
Jesus' Birth
What was the name of the first written law code?
Code of Hammurabi
What was the name of irrigation tool that transferred water from the Nile River to canals?
Shadoof
Who ruled over Israel before the kings?
Prophets and Religious Leaders
Who created the written language of Sanskrit?
Aryans
Name the intermediate directions...
NW, SW, SE, NE
What is the name of the temple?
Ziggurat
Name the kingdom that was known as the Age of the Pyramids.
Old Kingdom
What happened to the ten lost tribes of Israel?
They were assimiliated/absorbed into the Assyrian Empire.
What does the word "Buddha" mean?
The Enlightened One
Name all time abbreviations and their meanings.
BC-before Christ
AD-Anno Domini "in the year of our Lord"
CE-Comman Era
BCE-Before the common era
What was the main idea of the Epic of Gilgamesh?
Gilgamesh's search for eternal life
Why was Egypt divided into Upper and Lower?
The flow of the Nile River
Who was the Roman soldier that surrounded Jerusalem?
Titus
What did Chandragupta set up to protect himself?
Spy Network
What type of map shows landforms?
Topographical
Name the empires that took over Mesopotamia in the correct order.
Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Hittites, and Chaldeans
Name one ruler from each of the kingdoms in Egypt.
Old-Narmer
Middle-Joseph, Amhotep II
New-Tut, Ramses, Thutmose, Hatshepsut
In what year did Israel divide?
922 BC
What was the written language of the Harappans?
pictographs