Chapters 1-3

Question 1

What is History?

Answer 1

Events that have occurred in the past

Question 2

Give an example of History

Answer 2

Slavery, a war, Lilli’s 10th birthday

Question 3

Primary Source?

Answer 3

The telling of an event by someone who was actually there. An example is the diary of a slave girl.

Question 4

Secondary Source?

Answer 4

The telling of an event by someone who gathered the information from other places. An example is an article in the paper by a reporter.

Question 5

Culture

Answer 5

Knowledge, beliefs, customs, and values of a group of people.

Question 6

Physical Geography

Answer 6

The study of Earth’s land and features.

Question 7

Where would Early People settle?

Answer 7

They would settle wherever there were rich resources - like water, fertile soil, and building materials.

Question 8

Hominid

Answer 8

An early ancestor of humans.

Question 9

Land Bridge

Answer 9

A strip of land connecting two continents that allowed the Stone Age people to migrate when the ice age came.

Question 10

How did Tools help early humans?

Answer 10

They made work easier. The spear let them hunt bigger animals from farther away.

Question 11

How did ways of life change as people migrated?

Answer 11

Migration meant that people had to learn to adapt to new things like colder weather or different plants for food.

Question 12

What did people need to do for survival when they migrated?

Answer 12

They had to make clothing because it was cold, invent the fish hook to catch food from the water, and build warmer shelters.

Question 13

How did farming affect the people in Early Cultures?

Answer 13

Farming allowed people to stay in one place because they did not have to follow the animals for food. The began to build cities.

Question 14

Mesopotamia

Answer 14

A land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in Asia.

Question 15

Where is the Tigris River?

Answer 15

On the NORTHERN border of Mesopotamia.

Question 16

Where is the Euphrates River?

Answer 16

On the SOUTHERN border of Mesopotamia.

Question 17

Scribes

Answer 17

Writers hired by the Phoenicians to keep trading records. They used cuneiform before the Alphabet was created.

Question 18

Phonecians

Answer 18

People in Mesopotamia who became great SAILORS because travel on their land was so hard. They developed the first ABC’s.

Question 19

Phoenician Alphabet

Answer 19

The first time that a set of letters (not pictures) were combined to form words.

Question 20

Canals

Answer 20

Human-made water “rivers” used to bring water to the fields.

Question 21

Rivers

Answer 21

Useful to all civilizations because it provides water for food, transportation, and you get fertile soil after flooding.

Question 22

Irrigation

Answer 22

A way to supply water to an area of land for farming - may be canals, pipes, or in modern days it’s a sprinkler.

Question 23

Ziggurat

Answer 23

A pyramid shaped temple that was in the middle of Sumerian cities.

Question 24

Where was Mesopotamia?

Answer 24

Mesopotamia is between the TIGRIS and EUPHRATES rivers between Asia Minor and the Persian Gulf.

Question 25

How were scribes treated?

Answer 25

The got treated well because not everyone knew how to write. They could move up in social class.

Question 26

How did trade affect the Sumerians?

Answer 26

They got wealthy. They developed the alphabet to keep track of trade records.