Vocabulary
An object made by people a long time ago.
What is an artifact.
One reason why studying history is important is...
1. To learn about the past and about how things have changed.
2. To understand the present
3. To make decisions about the future
4. To understand how we fit into the human story
Historians call the early period of human history the Stone Age because....
It was the time when people used stone to make tools and weapons.
List of two methods devised by the Mesopotamians to control the flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers and improve agriculture...
1. They built dams to control the seasonal floods.
2. They dug canals that let water flow from a water source to the fields
3. The use of shadoofs or raising water from rivers.
4. They dug basins in the earth to store water for seasonal droughts
The Nile River Valley was ideal for human settlement because of its...
What is fertile land.
To adapt an animal to living with humans for the advantage of humans.
What is domesticate.
This person's job is to examine the causes or reasons that something happened in the past.
What is a historian.
The Paleolithic Age was also called the...
What is Old Stone Age.
Sumer's cities were surrounded by mudflats and patches of scorching desert. The harsh landscape made it hard to travel by land and communicate with other groups. This influenced the development of Sumerian ______ ______.
List of three physical features that protected Egyptians from outside invasions...
1. Nile's delta marshes
2. The Saharan and Eastern Deserts
3. Nile's cataracts
The act of training for a particular job.
What is specialization.
In the Gregorian Calendar, the notations; B.C., and A.D. mean...
What is:
B.C.- "before Christ"
A.D.- "in the year of the Lord"/Anno domini
Three tools developed by humans during the Paleolithic Age are...
1. Hand axes
2. Spears
3. Bows and arrows
4. Harpoons
5. Fish hooks
6. Scraping and cutting tools
7. Needles and nets
List of three Sumerian inventions...
1. Cuneiform
2. The wheel
3. the sailboat
4. wooden plough
5. potter's wheel
6. place-value- system
7. 60-second minute/ 60-minute hour/ 360-degree circle
The Egyptian king who united Upper and Lower Egypt.
What is Narmer.
A system that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes, or streams.
What is irrigation.
First hand pieces of information created by the people who saw or experienced an event are...
What are primary sources.
1. enriching meals with fat
2. building shelters
3. making warm clothing
4. using fire to keep themselves warm
Name of the first great Akkadian ruler who conquered and united Sumer and Akkad.
What is Sargon the Great
Ancient Egypt's government was a...
What is theocracy
A city that governs itself and its surrounding territory.
What is a city-state.
Information about an event created after the event by people who were not part of the historical event are...
What is a secondary source.
The change from hunting and gathering to farming is considered to be a revolution because...
This change had a major effect on the way that early humans lived. Now, humans could settle down in one place because they had a constant supply of food rather than moving around in search of food.
List of three things that the Code of Hammurabi dealt with...
1. crime
2. farming
3. business
4. marriage
5. family
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
Pharaohs of the Old Kingdom were also religious leaders because....
They were thought to be the sons of the god Ra.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
1. A large territory or group of territories governed by one ruler.
2. To treat a body to keep it from decaying.
What is:
1. Empire
2. Embalm
Something that shows proof that something is true.
What is evidence.
Neolithic settlements were established near this landform...
What are rivers/sources of water.
The Assyrian empire extended into these four modern day countries...
Turkey, Syria, Iran, and Iraq
Name of the important Egyptian book that contained prayers and magic spells used to prepare people for the afterlife.
What is the Book of the Dead
2. A long poem that records the deeds of a legendary or real hero.
What is:
1. papyrus
2. epic
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
Australopithecus Afarensis was a species of our human ancestor who lived more 3.2 million years ago. She was nicknamed...
What is Lucy.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
Names of the two largest Neolithic communities that developed in Southeast Asia...
Jericho and Catalhuyuk
The grandest city built by the Amorites around 1800 B.C. is...
What is Babylon
List of steps of the embalming process:
1. Organs were removed from body by priests and placed into canopic jars
2. Body covered with natron/salt and dried out
3. Dried body wrapped in linen
4. Body buried in sarcophagus
1. Relating to the earliest period of the Stone Age.
2. A time when glaciers covered much of the land
What is:
1. Paleolithic
2. Ice Age
Name of the test used to determine the credibility of sources...
What is the CRAAP Test.
Four benefits of a sedentary life are..
1. Greater security
2. steady food supply
3. growing population- and more working people available
4. emergence of trade due to food surplus
5. job specialization
6. changing roles of men and women
7. depletion of natural resources in certain areas
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
The ancient city of Babylon was established in this modern day country...
What is Iraq.
1. Relating to the latest period of the Stone Age.
2. the period when people began to make and use bronze.
What is:
1. Neolithic
2. Bronze Age
The CRAAP Test stands for...
What is:
C- urrency
R- elevance
A- uthority
A-ccuracy
P- urpose
1. Name the material produced by mixing copper and tin.
2. Explain one benefit of this technology
1. Bronze
2. It produced stronger tools and weapons, (which propelled humans into a new evolutionary age- the Bronze Age.)
Name of the Assyrian king who built one of the world's first libraries at Nineveh.
What is Ashurbanipal.
1. The study of objects to learn about past human life.
2. The organized growing of food on a regular schedule.
What is:
1. Archaeology
2. Systematic Agriculture