Ch. 1: Creation
This branch of science studies the earth and the distribution of plant and animal life on it.
What is Geography? (8)
The Fertile Crescent was home to this early civilization.
What is Mesopotamia?
This is the idea of ruling white the special approval of a country's god.
What is the Divine Right of Kings?
The Hittites had a military advantage over their elements because they were the first in Mesopotamia to have weapons made of this material?
What is Iron?
This city was the capital of the Assyrian Empire.
What is Nineveh?
A small army of Spartans was defeated by the Persians in this battle.
What is Thermopylae?
This culture had a very important impact on Rome.
What is Greek culture?
These are the remains or traces of animals or plants that have been preserved in the earth's crust.
What are Fossils? (17)
This is the oldest known civilization in the world.
_______ is a great love of country and a desire to be free of foreign influences.
What is Nationalism?
After leaving Canaan, the Phoenicians first settled in what is know known as this country.
What is Lebanon?
This is the belief that movement of the stars and planets affect the lives of people on earth.
What is Astrology?
This famous Greek scientist and mathematician discovered the idea of the lever.
Who is Archimedes?
This person was stabbed to death in the Roman Senate.
Who is Julius Cesar?
This person wrote On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859.
Who is Charles Darwin? (18)
Sumerian writing is known as ______.
What is Cuneiform?
This is a person who disagrees with the central doctrines of a religion.
What is a Heretic?
The most terrible god of the Phoenicians, known for child sacrifice, was called _______.
Who is Moloch?
The "Law of the Medes and Persians" could never be changed. What book of the Bible confirms this history?
What is the Book of Daniel?
He was the conquerer of the Persian Empire.
Who is Alexander the Great?
He was the great Carthaginian general who ultimately failed to defeat Rome.
Who is Hannibal?
This is the method of dating a civilization by studying its pottery.
What is Sequence Dating? (25)
This empire was known as the first empire in history.
What is the Akkadian Empire?
This person was the last great pharaoh of Egypt?
Who is Ramses II?
The kingdom of Israel was formed when the Hebrew people were united under this person.
Who is King Saul?
Reincarnation is a the heart of this religion.
What is Hinduism?
He started "The Academy."
Who is Plato?
The series of wars between Carthage and Rome were known as this.
What are the Punic Wars?
This is the idea that present-day geologic processes, acting more or less as the do at present, can explain how rocks were slowly formed over long ages in the past.
What is Uniformitarianism? (30)
The worship of many gods is know as _______.
What is Polytheism?
He was the most important god of the Egyptians.
Who was Ra?
This king ruled Israel during its most prosperous and powerful period.
Who is King David?
Babylon was located on this river.
What is the Euphrates River?
He was a famous philosopher who was hired by Philip of Macedonia to train his son.
Who is Aristotle?
The leaders of the Roman government were called this.
What are consuls?
This person claimed to have a "near man," which was called an australopithecine?
Who is Dr. Louis Leakey?
This is the entrance to India from the Northwest.
What is the Khyber Pass?
He established a legal cod for the Babylonians.
Who is Hammurabi?
The upper classes of Greek Society were known as _____.
Who is the Aristocracy?
The teachings of Buddha are called ______.
What are the Four Noble Truths?
This was the period after the conquests and death of Alexander the Great.
What is the Hellenistic Period?
Following the First Civil War, this person was the dictator of Rome.
Who is Cornelius Sulla?
It was discovered that some of the remains if the ______ Man were chemically treated to make the appear old.
Who is Piltdown Man?
Egypt is geographically divided into these two regions.
What is Upper and Lower Egypt?
Who was the chief Babylonian God?
In Greek mythology, the ruler of the seas and oceans is ______.
Who is Poseidon?
A coalition of the Chaldeans, Medes and Scythians destroyed this empire.
What is the Assyrian Empire?
Mycenaean Refugees fled primarily to this city when their civilization was destroyed.
What is Athens?
What is a term that means to take a step from which there is no turning back?
What is "Crossing the Rubicon"?