Prehistory
According to the Bible, He created the first man and woman.
Who is God?
This is what the word "Mesopotamia" means.
What is "the land between the rivers?"
Ancient Egyptians divided the year into 12 months and this many total days.
What is 365?
earth carried and deposited by moving water
What is silt?
the host of the video series Pyramid
Who is David Macaulay?
Early mankind is divided into these 3 ages: the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and this age.
What is the Iron Age?
This was the writing of the Sumerians, meaning "wedge-shaped."
What was cuneiform?
This was the Egyptian sun king.
Who was Ra?
a large stone coffin of ancient Egypt
What is a sarcophagus?
During the process of mummification, Egyptians did this to a deceased person's brain.
What is threw it away?
Before farming developed, mankind was a wanderer. This term means that.
What is a nomad?
This is the Akkadian king of Kish who conquered Sumer, then all of Mesopotamia.
Who was Sargon?
This was what Egyptians called their king.
What is a pharaoh?
a limestone figure of ancient Egypt with the head of a human and the body of a lion
What is the Sphinx?
In the animated section of Pyramid, this is the problem to be solved with the remains of pharaohs. (This was a real-life problem as well, except for the tomb of King Tutankhamen.)
What was tomb robbing?
an item worked on or made by man
What is an artifact?
This is probably the most important invention in the world from Sumer.
What is the wheel?
Between Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt, the one that is farther north.
What is Lower Egypt?
the belief in many gods
What is polytheism?
This was the unique thing about the pharaoh named Hatshepsut, usually shown with a beard.
Who was a female pharaoh?
what the letters A. D. really mean
What is "Anno Domini?"
These two rivers lie along the borders of Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
the famous stone that helped us decode ancient Egyptian heiroglyphics
What is the Rosetta Stone?
an idea used to explain facts we discover or experiences we have had; not necessarily true
What is a theory?
the two continents that were the focus of this chapter
What are Asia and Africa?