History 101
This lifestyle is one where people move around from place to place, instead of settling in one area.
What is Nomadic?
"Old Stone" and "New Stone"
What is Paleolithic (Old) and Neolithic (New)?
There were 7 characteristics of ancient civilizations. Name 3.
Government / Hereditary Rulers / Social Hierarchy / Job Specialization / Written Laws / Religion / Writing System
An ancient form of writing, invented by the Egyptians, using pictures to represent different things, ideas, or even sounds.
What are Hieroglyphics?
This mnemonic device, "Starving Apes Attacked Bananas" is used to remember the order of the first civilizations of Mesopotamia. Name the civilizations in order from oldest to newest.
Sumerians (Sumeria), Akkadians (Akkadia), Assyrians (Assyria), Babylonians (Babylon)
Things made by people in the past that help reveal what ancient life was like.
What are artifacts?
The simple tools that the early people made were made out of these two main materials.
What is stone? What is wood?
This first civilization in the world, located in Southern Mesopotamia, began about 6,000 years ago.
What is the Sumerian Civilization?
Menes, Amhose, Akhenaten, Hatshepsut, Ramses II, all are names of Ancient Egyptian what?
Who are Pharaohs?
This was a huge stretch of territory from Egypt in the west to Iran in the east that had fertile soil throughout.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
People who study history and prehistory by looking for artifacts at sites around the world.
Who are archaeologists?
Neolithic people found a way to have more control over animals and make them less wild and more trainable.
What is domestication?
The name of the first form of writing ever invented, meaning 'wedge-shaped' because many of the shapes in this writing language were shaped like triangles.
What is Cuneiform?
A form of paper invented by Egyptians, made from reeds that grew along the Nile.
What is Papyrus?
An Eye for An Eye - one of the laws of this ancient code, representing the first laws of a civilization ever being written, developed by Babylon's most famous ruler.
What is Hammurabi's code?
The 7 continents.
What are North America, South America, Africa, Antartica, Australia, Europe, and Asia?
The era known as "pre-history" refers to the time in history before this communication device was invented.
What is writing?
Sumeria was conquered by Sargon the Great from the city of Akkad, starting this next great empire.
What is the Akkadian Empire?
Egyptian history is divided into 3 main periods, also known as these 3 kingdoms, that were, at their end, defeated by Alexander the Great in 332 BC.
What is the Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, and New Kingdom?
Developed first by the Hittites but perfected by the Assyrians, development and use of this material led to the official historical start of this age, marked by development of weapons, swords and chariots used to help conquer other cities and civilizations.
What is Iron / the Iron Age?
This era, also known as the Stone Age, ended around 12,000 years ago.
What is the Paleolithic Era?
Through this method, Neolithic farmers burnt grass and trees to clear the field, let the ashes fertilize the soil, and then relocate year after year.
What is slash-and-burn?
Based on these, the Sumerian people were one of the first set of people to create a calendar from them.
What are phases of the moon?
In the New Kingdom, the pharaohs were buried in the Valley of the Kings. During the Middle Kingdom, pharaohs were buried in hidden tombs. In the Old Kingdom, pharaohs were buried in these.
What are pyramids?
Around 612 BCE, Babylon rose again under the Chaldeans, Master of Mathematics and Astronomy. In 539 BCE, Babylon was captured by an army from this Empire, located in Modern day Iran, marking the official end of the Babylonian empire.
What is the Persian Empire / Persians?