Geography
The earliest hominid remains were found on this continent
Africa
Modern Humans are known by this scientific classification
Homo Sapiens
This aspect of historical thinking has to do with determining what stories we choose to tell/study
Significance
This Babylonian King was the first ruler to codify law
Hammurabi
These were Mesopotamian temples. One is still standing in southern Iraq
Ziggaruts
Mesopotamia would be found in this modern country
Iraq
Term for a series of events (speech, social organization, tool use, etc.) that led to progress during the stone age
The Great Leap
Term that refers to putting events in the order in which they took place
Chronological Order
This was an artefact found by Sir Leonard Wooley that told about Sumerian social structure and life during wartime and peacetime
The Standard of Ur
This is the oldest known human artefact
The Olduvai Hand Axe (Chopper)
It was on these islands that Charles Darwin did some of his most important research on animals and evolution
The Galapagos
He developed the theory of evolution
Charles Darwin
The study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and analysis of artefacts
Archaeology
This was the name for the form of writing developed by the Sumerians
Cuneiform
The earliest civilizations were centered near these geographic features
Rivers
The oldest example of prehistoric paintings can be found in a cave in this European country
France
Survival of the Fittest allows for this, which in turn influences evolution
Natural Selection
BC is used to denote the historical era "Before Christ" what does AD stand for?
Anno Domini
The four civilizations that rose and fell within the Mesopotamian era
Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria and Chaldea
This term refers to the religious belief in numerous different gods
Polytheism
Mesopotamia lay between these two rivers
Tigris & Euphrates
This is one of the most significant developments in all of history - when humans became producers of their own food
The Neolithic Revolution
This is the technique for determining the age of skeletal remains, uncovered antiquities and artefacts
Developed by the Babylonians, the Shekel, Mina and Talent were...
Types of currency
This is the oldest known work of literature, written in ancient Sumeria
The Epic of Gilgamesh