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 / Administration / Hierarchy / Specialization / Trade (with surplus) / Religion / Written Language
An ancient form of writing, invented by the Egyptians, using pictures to represent different things, ideas, or even sounds.
What is 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), Assyrians (Assyria), Akkadians (Akkadia), Babylonians (Babylon)
Things made by people in the past that help reveal what ancient life was like.
What are artifacts?
The Oldest Known city in the world, "Catal Huyuk" is located in this present day country.
What is Turkey?
This first civilization in the world, located in Southern Mesopotamia, began about 6,000 years ago.
Menes, Amhose, Akhenaten, Hatshepsut, Ramses II, all names of Ancient Egyptian what?
Who are Pharaohs?
King Sargon II, the most important leader of Assyria, ruled with this kind of power, meaning whatever the king decided became law.
What is absolute power?
People who study history and prehistory by looking for artifacts at sites around the world.
Who are archaeologists?
Paleolithic people 1st discovered how to domesticate (or tame) these animals to help with hunting and foraging.
What are wolves?
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 charriots 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?
Around 12,000 years ago when the last ice age began to come to an end, the weather became warmer around the world and there was a shift from this method of obtaining food to this new method.
What is from hunting to farming, or the beginning of agriculture?
The Akkadian Empire Existed during this age, when people learned how to make bronze metal and shape it into tools.
What is the Bronze Age?
During the Old Kingdom, pharaohs were buried in pyramids. The Middle Kingdom saw pharaohs buried in hidden tombs. In the New Kingdom they were buried in this secret location.
What is The Valley of the Kings?
Around 612 BCE, Babylon rose again under the Chaldeans, masters of Mathematics and Astronomy. In 539 BCE, Babylon was captured by an army from this Empire, located in Modern day Iran, marking the end of the Babylonian empire.
What is the Persian Empire / Persians?