Uncovering the Past
This is the study of the past based on what people left behind
A. Astronomy
B. Archaeology
C. Meteorology
D. Astrology
What is Archaeology?
What was the time of history, before writing, called?
A. Permian Period
B. Prehistory
C. Triassic Period
D. Agricultural Period
What is "Prehistory."
What is "Surplus?"
A. More than you need.
B. A group of toys called "Squishy Fat Rats."
C. A script from an ancient play
D. What the ancient Egyptians called Hades
What is "more than you need."
Why was most of Egypt a desert?
A. The cold weather
B. There was little rain fall
C. The pyramids
D. Global warming
What is "There was little rain fall."
Name a popular stone tool?
A. Paleolithic
B. A hand ax
C. A sharpened skateboard
D. Hominids
What is "a hand ax?"
An account of an event from an eye-witness
A. Secondary Source
B. Primary Source
C. Participant
D. Fossil
What is a "Primary Source?"
Which continent did people migrate from?
A. Africa
B. Europe
C. Asia
D. Australia
What is "Africa?"
__________ was at the western end of the Fertile Crescent along the Mediterranean Sea.
A. Ur
B. Phoenicia
C. Memphis
D. Rome
What is "Phoenicia?"
When the Nile River flooded, what was left behind that was good for farming?
A. Seaweed
B. Refugees
C. Silt
D. Gravel
What is "silt."
Name all three Stone Ages
What is "Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic"
What is an ancient object created by humans?
A. Fossil
B. Artifact
C. Geography
D. Landforms
What is "Artifact?"
Who discovered early hominid skulls?
Plato and Ur
Donald Johnson, Mary Leakey
Sargon
Casper
Why did the Phoenicians learn to sail?
What is "they wanted to trade, and they were surrounded by mountains and hostile lands?"
Which river would flood in upper Egypt during every mid-summer?
A. The Tigris River
B. The Hudson River
C. The Nile River
D. Styx River
What is "The Nile River?"
The Phoenician sailors founded __________ in other lands while trading.
A. A wallet
B. Colonies
C. Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)
D. The Fertile Crescent
What is "Colonies?"
What kind of events are part of our culture?
A. Pets
B. Rocks
C. Lava
D. Underground
What is "Pets?"
early hunter gatherers possessed all of the following except
fire
art
bone tools
religious beliefs
Stone tools
What were the Phoenicians known for?
A. Leather goods
B. Their trade system
C. Mummies
D. Agriculture
What was "their trade system?"
Which river would flood lower Egypt every fall?
A. The Tigris River
B. The Nile River
C. The East River
D. The Red Sea
What is "the Nile River?"
What is Hammurabi's Code?
A. Be your Best
B. a set of 282 laws that delt with every part of daily life.
C. the Post office
D. Be kind to others
What is "a set of 282 laws that delt with every part of daily life."
What was the land bridge?
It connected two continents
What was Cuneiform?
Irrigation
Canals
Early system of writing
Early System of writing
What is Irrigation?
A. A way of supplying water to an area of land
B. A time period
C. People in a settlement
D. Trading
What is "a way of supplying water to an area of land?"
What is a triangular shaped area of land surrounded by rivers?
field
togas
delta
delta
What is the Capital of New York?
Manhattan
Troy
Albany
The Hamptons
What is Albany?