Early Man & Culture
This is the term for items made by humans, such as pottery and tools.
What are Artifacts?
The name of the Sumerian writing system, made up of wedge shapes.
What is Cuneiform?
The term for the preservation process that turned pharaohs into mummies.
What is Embalming?
A person who the ancient Israelites believed was instructed by God.
What is a Prophet?
This is the term for when people grow more than they need, resulting in extra food or goods.
What is a Surplus?
The method of estimating an object's age by measuring its Carbon-14 content.
What is Radiocarbon Dating?
This Babylonian ruler was the first known to create a set of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
This pharaoh was known for being more interested in trade than in conquest.
Who is Hatshepsut?
This king was chosen by God through the ritual of anointing, but later disobeyed some of God's commands.
Who is Saul?
The term meaning to tame plants or animals for human use.
What is Domesticate?
Name one main development of the Paleolithic period.
What is:
Fire
Stone Tools
Weapons
Language
Art?
Groups of traveling merchants and traders who formed large companies.
What are Caravans?
This area, replacing the pyramids, is where pharaohs had their tombs cut into cliffs west of the Nile River.
What is the Valley of the Kings?
The Jewish house of worship.
What is a Synagogue/Temple?
This is the term for people who move with the seasons for food and do not have fixed homes.
What are Nomads?
The study of how humans developed and related to one another.
What is Anthropology?
This structure was a temple built to honor the chief god in a Sumerian city-state.
What is a Ziggurat?
The name of the pharaoh who had the largest of the Great Pyramids of Giza built for him.
Who is Khufu?
This holiday celebrates the cleansing of the Temple after the removal of Greek gods.
What is Hanukkah (or Channukkah)?
This year is the furthest back in time: 800 A.D., 2022 A.D., or 800 B.C.E.
What is 800 B.C.E.?
The name given to the nearly three-million-year-old female hominid discovered by Donald Johanson.
Who is Lucy?
Name two of the four inventions or advancements created by the Sumerians besides their writing.
What are the Wagon Wheel, Plow, Sailboat, Geometry, or the number system based on 60?
Name one right early Egyptian women had that women in Mesopotamia did not.
What are to own and pass on property, buy and sell goods, get a divorce, or make wills?
The name of the group living in Canaan who were stronger than the Israelites when they first arrived.
Who are the Philistines?
The city where the world's first library was built.
What is Nineveh?