Unit 1 - An Introduction to History
The difference between a historical event and a historical account
Historical Event - something that happened in the past that you cannot relive
Historical Account - A representation of an event from the past
A group of people who survive by hunting and gathering over a large region
What are foragers?
What is Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Ancient China, and the Indus River Valley?
Belief in one god
What is monotheism?
Afro EurAsia refers to
What are Africa, Europe, and Asia?
List three examples of a primary source
What are buildings, roads, tools weapons, coins, tapestries, pottery, battle sites, clothing, maps, charts, place names, drawings, paintings, photographs, letters, diaries, memos, receipts, etc.?
The Paleolithic Age ends with the transition into
What is agriculture?
The characteristics of an area being "geographically lucky"
*Must list three for full points*
What is fertile soil, a water source, large grasses for grazing (animal domestication), and a warm climate near the equator?
The belief or desire of a government or people that a strong military is important and necessary, and is used agressively
What is militarism?
BC stands for
BCE stands for
What is "Before Christ"?
What is "Before Common Era"?
List three examples of a secondary source
What are written analysis texts by a historian, books about an event, textbooks, videos created after the event, podcasts, documentaries?
Where the earliest human remains were found
What is Africa?
Why do you think we didn't see the appearance of writing anywhere in the world until AFTER the development of cities?
We didn't need language with small family groups (each had their own to communicate with); however, it was needed in cities to communicate with other people who weren't your family and wouldn't know your lanaguge
The middle-men of the Silk Road
Who are the Sodigans?
AD stands for
CE stands for
What is Anno Domini ("In the Year of our Lord")?
What is the Common Era?
To confirm or support a statement, theory, or finding with evidence
What is corroboration?
The Agricultural Revolution allowed for
*Must list at least four things to get full points*
What is farming, people settling in one place, animals were domesticated, pottery advancements for food storage, a surplus of food which leads to population growth and eventually specialization?
List the 9 characteristics of a civilization
*Must list 5 to receive the points*
What are cities, specialization of labor, social hierarchy, government, trade networks, technology, monuments, religion, and creativity?
A group of non-elected officials of a government or organization that carry out the rules, laws, and ideas in order to organize and manage people, resources, and territory
What is a bureaucracy?
What makes an Era an Era?
Similar characteristics until there is a major change or "turning point"
The 4 tools historians use to organize information
*Must get 3 out of the 4 to get full points*
What are historical significance, social institutions, temporal frames (time), and spatial scales (space)?
The crop that was developed first in the Fertile Crescent
What is Rye?
The "eye for an eye" law code used in Mesopotamia
What is Hammurabi's Code?
The recipe of an empire
*List at least 5 things*
What are geographic luck, farming, surplus, population growth, specialization, cities, language, social hierarchy, government, kings/leaders, new technology, trade, religion, war, land expansion, city-states, etc?
The idea that humans have a unique ability to develop and share compex ideas and knowledge and also to share this knowledge from one person to another, especially across generations and over time
What is collective learning?