Historical Terms
This phrase is used to refer to events that happened before the birth of Jesus. In more modern times, the phrase BCE (Before Common Era) is used to describe this timeframe.
What is BC?
Double points if you said: Before Christ
The historical era that was so long ago that it was before anything was written down.
What is prehistory?
Person Christians believe to be their savior and God in human flesh. Jews reject this person as God.
Who is Jesus?
Military leader and king who conquered and united all of Greece under his control. He is known for dying very young but undefeated in battle.
Who is Alexander the Great?
Modern European country where the capital city of Rome is located.
What is Italy?
This phrase is an old Latin term used to talk about events before the birth of Jesus. Some more modern sources refer to this timeframe as CE (Common Era).
What is AD?
Double points if you said: Anno Domini (Year of our Lord)
Hardened remains of past living organisms, usually found within layers of very old rocks.
What are fossils?
Name of an expected savior Jews believe is still yet to come but Christians believe has already appeared.
What is the messiah?
Greek city-state that was the home of fierce warriors trained essentially from birth to be expert soldiers. This city-state had Greece's best military and won its war against it's biggest rival.
What is Sparta?
The economic status of most people in the Roman Empire.
What is poverty?
Material remains from the past that tell us about life in previous time periods. Examples include fossils, pots, pans, vases, coins, etc.
What are artifacts?
Frozen skeleton found in the Austrian Alps that is the oldest European mummy we have today. This person was probably killed by the arrowhead found lodged in their shoulder.
Who is Otzi the Iceman?
Number of gods believed to exist in Christianity and Judaism.
What is one God?
Greek city-state that was known for its love of learning, arts, and culture. They also had Greece's best navy and was home to Greece's most famous philosophers (Plato, Aristotle, Socrates).
What is Athens?
Government position in Rome where someone could have absolute power for no more than six months. Eventually, Julius Caesar would declare himself this for life.
What is a dictator?
Sources that are first-hand accounts of what happened in the past. Examples include diaries, autobiographies, artifacts, video or audio recordings of what happened at certain events, etc.
What are primary sources?
Way to get food where you hunt or gather for the food.
Way to get food where you grow or cultivate the food.
(DAILY DOUBLE; need to answer both questions in the correct order for double points)
What is foraging?
What is farming/agriculture?
Speech given by Jesus about how Christians should live their lives. In the speech, he says that Christians should love their enemies, take care of the needy, and avoid bragging about helping others.
What is the Sermon on the Mount?
Culture that started in ancient Greece and later spread to Rome. It is the culture that modern Europe, North and South America, and Australia share.
What is Western Culture?
The Roman Empire is the only empire in world history to control a particularly large inland sea that historically was the center of Western Culture. This is ____________________.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Sources that are retellings of what happened in the past. Examples include textbooks, teacher slides, documentaries, biographies, etc.
What are secondary sources?
The switch from foraging to farming.
What is the Farming/Agricultural Revolution?
Jews are both a religious group and a/n ___________.
What is an ethnicity?
Type of government that originated in Greece where people vote for their leaders.
What is a democracy/republic?
New capital city built by Emperor Constantine in the eastern half of the Roman Empire as a Christian capital city.
What is Constantinople?