44 questions
What is Archaelogy?
Archaeology is the study of people living in the past by examining objects they left behind.
Archaelogy is the finding of items people left behind.
Archaelogy is a place where people find artifacts.
Archaelogy is structures like houses and walls.
Evidence of how people lived in the past include sources of information such as
buildings
maps
books
paintings
clothes
What is archaeology?
The study of objects to learn about past human life.
The study of fossils to learn about past life.
The study of volcanic islands.
The study of calendars.
What does C.E. stand for?
Common Era
Common problem
Common history
Common idea
Why is history important?
Knowing the past can help us make decisions in the future.
It's not.
So people can repeat mistakes.
So people can give up when faced with problems.
A science that tries to understand past events is called_________
Physics
Chemistry
History
Biology
Which of the following cannot be a source of History?
Rainbow
Sculptures
Coins
Books
What type of source is the traditional story?
Material source
Written source
Oral source
A person who studies the past is an:
police officer
store owner
historian
History is the study of the past.
True
False
History is....
What's happening now
What happened in the past
What is going to happen
Who are historians?
People who study history
People who study science
Those who learned how to write and became record keepers.
Scribes
Merchants
What does the word “fertile” mean?
Difficult to work with
Near the river
Good for growing
The Tigris and Euphrates are...
Animals
Gods
Rivers
Mesopotamians lived in huts made from ...
Mud
Bricks
Grass
Hunter Gatherers were Nomadic. What does this mean?
To create a written language
To move from place to place
To worship many Gods
What term means the buying and selling of goods and services?
Artisan
Commerce
Interdependence
Pharaoh
Meroitic Script
What is the name for the Egyptian form of writing?
Cuneiform
Logographs
Hieroglyphics
Characters
What is used to create the paper-like material that Egyptian scribes used?
Papyrus
Tree
Clay Tablets
Animal Hides
Why did Egyptians build the pyramids? (Choose all that apply.)
To serve as a palace for the pharoahs
Temples for their gods
To help improve scientific discover
Tombs for the Pharaohs
What is the river that runs across Egypt?
Nile
Sahara
Thames
Ganga
True or False: Pharaohs were the kings of Egypt
True
False
The ancient Egyptians lived along the Nile river because...
they loved to ride on their boats
they like to take a shower every hour
they liked to catch fish
it helped them grow crops and drink water
Along what RIVER did the Harappan Civilization develop?
Ganges
Nile
Indus
Jordan
What was the first ancient city archeologists discovered in the Indus River Valley?
Harappa
Pakistan
Medina
What was a "seal"?
Stamp to mark an object made by someone
A way to hold an envelope together
A barking animal