Three Chapter Test Flashcards
Near ____, Germany digging in a pit they found a lower jaw.
Heidelberg.
Instead of a forehead they had ___ above the eyebrows.
Two thick rides.
___ comes before history.
Prehistory.
Woods, plants, and ___ rocks change.
Volcanic.
They call it the stone age because they started make ____ out of stone.
Tools.
Neanderthals inhabited earth ___ ____ ____ years ago.
Two hundred thousand.
Neanderthals appeared ____ ___ years before ancestors.
Seventy thousand.
Winters ____. Summers ____.
Longer, shorter.
______ invented talking.
Cavemen.
______ people did not invent clothes, houses, tools, plows, grains for bread, cows, sheep, dogs, bows, arrows, helmets, shields.
Prehistoric.
Ice age lasted many ____ of ____ of years.
Tens, thousands.
Cavemen drew and painted in caves to summon _____.
Animals.
Forests were dangerous so they built _____ _____.
Pile dwellings.
What are pile dwellings?
Pile dwellings are huts on stilts rammed deep in the mud in the middle of lakes.
Prehistoric people invented ____ ___ and decorate with patterns and fire ovens.
Clay pots.
What did cavemen learn to do when the warmth came and the ice retreated to the mountains?
They learned to plant grass and grind seeds to bake in fire to make bread.
When did prehistoric people start making tools with metals?
4000 BC.
_____ had a “nice shine.”
Copper.
They mixed copper and ___ to make it stronger.
Tin.
Tin and copper made ___.
Bronze.
Where was a human skull found?
Germany in Neander Valley.
What were the boats made of?
Hollowed tree trunks.
What were people dressed in?
Skins.
Wives daughters were jewelry made of what?
Colored stones and even gold.
When did Menes rule over Egypt?
5100 years ago.
What were the rulers of Ancient Egypt called?
Pharaohs.
What did Egyptians sing in praise of the river four thousand years ago?
Watering the plains, feed the cattle, quench the thirsty desert, bring forth the barley, create the wheat, fill the granaries and storehouses, not forgetting the poor.
What was the Ancient Egyptian writing system called?
Hieroglyphs.
Why did the Egyptians preserve all their ancient traditions over the centuries and the priests make sure that no son did anything his father had not done before?
To them, everything old was sacred.
Which body of water did the Ancient Egyptians worship?
The Nile.
Which of the following do we attribute to pharaohs?
They were immensely powerful, their word was law, all of Egypt had to toil for him if he so decreed, they lived in a great stone palace with massive pillars and many courtyards.
Who was the sun god in Ancient Egypt?
Amon.
Who was the god of the Kingdom of the Dead?
Anubis.
“In honor of their gods, they chiseled majestic stone statues, as tall as __________, and built temples as big as __________.”
A five-story house, towns.
What are the tall pointed granite stones placed outside of temples in Ancient Egypt called?
Obelisks.
Which of the following describes a belief that the Ancient Egyptians had in their religion?
A man’s soul left his body when he died, and for some reason, the soul continued needing that body, and would suffer if it crumbled into dust.
The name Mesopotamia is Greek for what?
Land between the rivers.
Which of the following two cities existed in Mesopotamia?
Nineveh and Babylon.
One such mound, standing in the desert, is all that remains of __________, once the greatest city on earth, a city swarming with people who came there from every part of the world to trade their wares.
Babylon.
Upstream, at the foot of the mountains, sits another. This was __________, the second greatest city in the land … [the capital of] of the Assyrians.
Nineveh.
