Human Prehistory
Humans first lived HERE 200,000 years ago, spreading out from there into Asia, Europe, and beyond 50,000 years later.
What is Africa?
Simply writing down and remembering obscure moments in history, such as August 13, 1521, is not History, but THIS.
What is a Cold and Meaningless Date?
This Italian Explorer believed the Earth was pear shaped, and advocated Europe go West in order to get to Asia.
Who is Columbus?
The Maya invented this Number long before Europe and Asia.
What is the Number 0?
When humans entered Eastern Europe for the first time, they found these human-like people already living there.
What are the Neanderthals?
When we study something, and begin to define it by what it is NOT, one has engaged this philosophical way of defining things.
What is the Via Negativa (Way of Negation)?
These three ships that discovered the Americas were known as The Girl, The Painted, and the Saint Mary in English.
What are the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria?
This Theme Park was built in 1971 becoming "The Happiest Place on Earth".
What is Disneyland?
About 40,000 years ago, the Neanderthals went extinct. Anthropologists believe this was probably due to disease, famine, and war with THIS SPECIES.
What are Humans?
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary defines History with these two words.
What is a tale or story?
The first peoples encountered by Columbus and his crews called themselves THIS, and were actually far more advanced than the Spaniards admitted (such as navigating by stars without tools).
Who are the Taino?
Baron von Richthofen flew a red Tri-Plane, a plane with three sets of wings, during World War I, and gained this nickname.
Who is the Red Baron?
Prehistory ends with the invention of writing in Sumeria THIS LONG ago.
What is 5,700 years ago?
Historians wait about THIS LONG after an event before they will refer to the event as History.
What is about 75-80 years?
The Caribbean Sea gains its name from this supposed tribe of cannibals.
Who are the Carib?
This is the only species of mammal that is venomous, having a spike on their hind leg.
What is a platypus?
Some species of animals from Prehistory survived into the period we refer to as History, such as THESE LARGE BEASTS that roamed the ice flows and glaciers, and went extinct 1,000 years after the Pyramids at Giza were built.
What are Woolly Mammoths?
Henry VIII beheaded THIS many of his six wives.
What is 2?
In order to unite the Iberian Peninsula of Europe into a single Kingdom of Spain, Ferdinand and Isabella required THIS kind of society, that was unified without diversity.
What is Monolithic?
The Triple Point of Water is the temperature at which water is in three states, gas, solid, and THIS.
What is Liquid?