Why Study History?
Christians study ancient history partly to see how people have shown both human creativity and human ___.
Answer: brokenness / sin
A letter written by an ancient Egyptian would be what kind of source?
Answer: Primary source
Humans are created in the ___ of God.
Answer: Image of God
Mesopotamia developed between these two rivers.
Answer: Tigris and Euphrates
This river made Egyptian farming possible.
Answer: Nile River
Studying the successes and failures of past civilizations can help us gain this for life today.
Answer: Wisdom
A modern textbook explaining ancient Egypt is this kind of source.
Answer: Secondary source
For two hundred more points, name three other secondary sources.
God commanded humans to fill the earth, rule it, and develop its resources. This is called the ___.
Answer: Creation Mandate
Farmers built these to move river water to their crops.
Answer: Irrigation systems
The ruler of ancient Egypt was called this.
Answer: Pharaoh
Christianity teaches that civilizations can accomplish impressive things while still being affected by this event in Genesis 3.
Answer: The Fall
When a historian explains what evidence probably means, this is called an ___.
Answer: Interpretation
According to Genesis, this event greatly reduced the human population and reshaped human civilization.
Answer: The Flood
The earliest Sumerian communities were independent cities with their own governments. These were called ___.
Answer: City-states
Egyptians developed this picture-based writing system.
Answer: Hieroglyphics
Christians study ancient cultures without assuming everything ancient people believed was ___.
Answer: True / correct
A historian says, “This object may have belonged to a priest, but we cannot be sure.” The uncertain part is an example of ___.
Answer: Speculation
Genesis 3:15 gives the first biblical promise that evil will eventually be defeated. It points toward God's plan of ___.
Answer: Redemption
This Babylonian king is famous for creating a written law code.
Answer: Hammurabi
Egyptians built these enormous stone structures as royal tombs.
Answer: Pyramids
Name two things Christians can learn by studying ancient civilizations. Answer:
Examples include God's work, human creativity, effects of sin, wisdom, cultural development, consequences of choices, to take dominion, how civilizations work.
Put these in the correct category: “broken pottery,” “the pottery was used for cooking,” and “the pottery belonged to a king.”
Answer: Evidence; interpretation; speculation
What does the Table of Nations in Genesis help explain?
Answer: The spread/development of different peoples and nations after the Flood.
Name three major Mesopotamian achievements.
Answer: Any 3—writing/cuneiform, irrigation, law codes, trade, record keeping, wheel/inventions, city-states, empires.
Both civilizations had social classes. What does that mean?
Answer: Society was divided into groups with different roles and levels of power/status.