STS_Ancient Times

Question 1

Was able to create distinctive and unique sounds

Answer 1

Didgeridoo

Question 2

It was invention of Babylonians but it is still under Mesopotamia

Answer 2

Medicine

Question 3

• ____ are used for trading anything for a product.
• 1200 BCE first used as money

Answer 3

Cowrie Shells (Currency)

Question 4

It is remarkably durable due to its unique recipes which uses slaked slime and volcanic ashes

Answer 4

Concrete

Question 5

The spearpoint expanded
300,000 years ago in East Africa and Middle East 350,000 years ago in Europe

Answer 5

Spear

Question 6

• Originated in Mesoamerica
  1900 BCE
• They believed that cacao beans were a gift to mankind from the feathered serpent god Kulkulkan to the Mayans and Aztecs as Quetzalcoatl

Answer 6

Chocolate

Question 7

Were bag shaped and coarse, made of local clay inclusions of quartz and
feldspar, with plain or simply decorated walls

Answer 7

Pottery

Question 8

The first recorded laws called ___

Answer 8

Hammurabi’s Code

Question 9

This land is in between the Euphrates and Tigris river. Also known as the earliest civilization and many empires or states emerged there

Answer 9

Ancient Mesopotamia

Question 10

Was founded around 625 B.C in the areas of ancient italy known as Etruria and Latium

Answer 10

Rome / Roman Empire

Question 11

• Founding father of surgery
• Was an innovator of plastic surgery including rhinoplasty

Answer 11

Sushruta (Surgery)

Question 12

Important subject to babylonians, they invented the zodiac signs and also contributed to the study of eclipses of sun and moon.

Answer 12

Astronomy

Question 13

Is a pipe that uses the pull of gravity to bring water from springs in the mountains to areas

Answer 13

Aqueducts

Question 14

____ traces like charcoal and charred bones

Answer 14

Fire

Question 15

Under Hittite Empire

Answer 15

Luwian Hieroglyphics

Question 16

• Also called as “botanical medicine” or “phytotheraphy”
• Used for medical purposes before recorded history

Answer 16

Herbal Medicine

Question 17

considered luxurious fabric and was often restricted to the upper classes.

Answer 17

Silk - Fashion

Question 18

The first built aqueducts was called ___ around 312 B.C

Answer 18

Aqua Appia

Question 19

Romans built the most sophisticated system of roads

Answer 19

Roads and Highways

Question 20

3 Written Language under Ancient Times

Answer 20

1. Oracle Bone Script
2. Luwian Hieroglyphics
3. Akkadian Cuneiform

Question 21

Babylonians used calendars with alternating 29 and 30 day months

Answer 21

Calendar Systems

Question 22

Meant to be used as a weapon enhancer, used in hunting or battle done

Answer 22

Woomera

Question 23

Rome was ruled by six kings around 625-510 BC) also known as ___

Answer 23

The Period of Kings

Question 24

Used animals bones or turtle plastrons used in divination

Answer 24

Oracle Bone Script

Question 25

- The ancient “computer” known as quipus - System of knotted cords used to store data and transfer information

Answer 25

Quipo

Question 26

The first piece of literature called ___ and were the first to be written by the Mesopotamians

Answer 26

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Question 27

- Used bark and skins - To communicate with one another about their surroundings

Answer 27

Cartography

Question 28

Mesopotamia comes from the Greek word Meso means ___ Potamos means __

Answer 28

- in the middle of - in the river

Question 29

Used for making pottery and chariots. Also helped in terms of transportations

Answer 29

The Wheel

Question 30

- The earliest arrowheads occurred in southern Africa around 700,000 years ago - Fashioned by Bushmen’s ancestors

Answer 30

Bow and Arrow

Question 31

Complaint table to Ea-nasir

Answer 31

Akkadian Cuneiform

Question 32

- Was an Ancient Cultural region in southern Mesopotamia - known as Iraq

Answer 32

Babylonia

Question 33

- Invented during 9th century - Firearms and Alchemy

Answer 33

Gunpowder

Question 34

One of the most important advances of mesopotamians made by the sumerians

Answer 34

Writings

Question 35

The caterpillars of the domestic silk moth, also known as “Bombyx Mori”, are the most commonly used silkworm species.

Answer 35

Sericulture