Historical Thinking
Prehistory
Mes Geography
Mes Government
Mes Religion
100
This is a first hand account of an event.
What is a primary source?
100
This is the Greek word for Old Stone Age
What is Paleolithic Age?
100
Mesopotamia lies between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
100
This is a collection of kingdoms under one ruler.
What is an empire?
100
Who was the king of the Mesopotamian gods/
Who is Marduk?
200
This is a second hand account of an event?
What is a secondary source?
200
This is the Greek word for New Stone Age
What is Neolithic Age?
200
This is the large sea to the west.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
200
He was the first emperor in the world.
Who is Sargon?
200
Who is the goddess of love and war?
Who is Ishtar or Innana?
300
This is what you should do when you closely read (a form of writing).
What is annotating?
300
On which continent did all humans originate?
What is Africa?
300
This is the body of water to the south and east of Mesopotamia.
What is the Persian Gulf?
300
He was Old-Babylon's most famous king.
Who is Hammurabi?
300
Whose body was turned into the earth after she was killed?
Who is Tiamat?
400
This is when you compare pieces of evidence to see if they agree.
What is corroborate?
400
How long was human prehistory?
What is 195,000 years?
400
This large desert is to the south of Mesopotamia.
What is the Arabian Desert?
400
He was the most famous ruler of Assyria.
Who is Sennacherib?
400
He was the patron god of Assyria.
Who is Ashur?
500
This is when you consider when a source was created.
What is contextualization?
500
This person studies only prehistoric humans.
What is a paleoanthropologist?
500
These are the mountains to the north and west of Mesopotamia.
What are the Taurus Mountains?
500
He was Neo-Babylon's most famous ruler.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
500
He was the father of the king of the gods, and responsible for turning Apsu into mud.
Who is Ea?