How to Study History
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What is anno domini?
Lifestyle of early humans during the old stone age.
What is hunting-gathering?
Greek translation for Mesopotamia.
What is the land between the rivers?
Rulers of ancient Egypt.
What is a pharaoh?
Diary, photograph, letters, autobiography.
What is a primary source?
Term for new stone age
What is neolithic?
Form of writing in Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
Great stone tomb built for an Egyptian Pharaoh.
What is a pyramid?
Calendar used by most of the world today.
What is the Gregorian calendar?
To tame animals for human use.
What is domestication?
The Assyrians were credited with being one of the first civilizations to use this material for weapons and armor.
What is iron?
The Nile River empties into this body of water.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
To present someone's work as your own without giving that person credit.
What is plagiarism?
These were a result of the ice age and allowed early humans to travel to new parts of the world.
What are land bridges?
A pyramid-shaped structure with a temple at the top.
What is a ziggurat?
Book used to learn how to obtain life after death.
What is the Book of the Dead?
An unreasoned, emotional judgment about people and events.
What is bias?
A mixture of copper and tin.
What is bronze?
This ruler is credited with establishing the first known empire in the world.
Who is Sargon?
Lasted from c. 2055 B.C. and 1650 B.C.; considered the golden age of ancient Egypt.
What is the Middle Kingdom?