Vocabulary
An object made by people a long time ago.
An artifact.
One reason why studying history is important is...
1. To learn about the past and about how things have changed.
2. To understand the present
3. To make decisions about the future
4. To understand how we fit into the human story
Historians call the early period of human history the Stone Age because....
It was the time when people used stone to make tools and weapons.
List of two methods devised by the Mesopotamians to control the flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers and improve agriculture...
1. They built dams to control the seasonal floods.
2. They dug canals that let water flow from a water source to the fields
3. The use of shadoofs or raising water from rivers.
4. They dug basins in the earth to store water for seasonal droughts
Ancient Egypt's government was a...
Theocracy
To adapt an animal to living with humans for the advantage of humans.
Domesticate.
This person's job is to examine the causes or reasons that something happened in the past.
Historian.
The Paleolithic Age was also called the...
Old Stone Age.
Which ancient wonder is said to have been built in Babylon by King Nebuchadnezzar for his wife?
The Hanging Gardens
The Egyptian king who united Upper and Lower Egypt.
Narmer/Menes
The act of training for a particular job.
Specialization.
In the Gregorian Calendar, the notations; B.C., and A.D. mean...
B.C.- "before Christ"
A.D.- "in the year of the Lord"/Anno domini
Three tools developed by humans during the Paleolithic Age are...
1. Hand axes
2. Spears
3. Bows and arrows
4. Harpoons
5. Fish hooks
6. Scraping and cutting tools
7. Needles and nets
List of three Sumerian inventions...
1. Cuneiform
2. The wheel
3. the sailboat
4. wooden plough
5. potter's wheel
6. place-value- system
7. 60-second minute/ 60-minute hour/ 360-degree circle
List three physical features that protected Egyptians from outside invasions...
1. Nile's delta marshes
2. The Saharan and Eastern Deserts
3. Nile's cataracts
A territory governed as a political district of a country or empire.
Province
First hand pieces of information created by the people who saw or experienced an event are...
Primary sources.
Two methods that humans used to adapt to Ice Age conditions...
1. enriching meals with fat
2. building shelters
3. making warm clothing
4. using fire to keep themselves warm
Name of the first great Akkadian ruler who conquered and united Sumer and Akkad.
Sargon the Great
The Nile River Valley was ideal for human settlement because of its...
Fertile land.
A person who copies or writes out documents, often a record keeper.
Scribe
Information about an event created after the event by people who were not part of the historical event are...
Secondary source.
The change from hunting and gathering to farming is considered to be a revolution because...
This change had a major effect on the way that early humans lived. Now, humans could settle down in one place because they had a constant supply of food rather than moving around in search of food.
List of three things that the Code of Hammurabi dealt with...
1. crime
2. farming
3. business
4. marriage
5. family
Pharaohs of the Old Kingdom were also religious leaders because....
They were thought to be the sons of the god Ra.