World History Midterm flash cards
Near __________ somebody was once digging a pit when they came across a bone, deep down under the ground. It was a human bone. A lower jaw.
Heidelberg, in Germany
How did the skull discovered in Germany differ from our human skulls?
Instead of a forehead like ours, it just had two thick ridges above the eyebrows.
What gives “prehistory” its name?
It comes before history.
Which examples of materials did scientists find that change slowly but regularly over a very long period of time?
woods and plants and volcanic rocks
Why do historians call it the “Stone Age”?
because of these stone tools we call this time the Stone Age
About how long did the Neanderthal people inhabit the earth?
two hundred thousand years.
About how long ago did the Neanderthal people appear in prehistory before our ancestors?
Seventy thousand years earlier
What was the climate like during The Stone Age?
Winters were longer and summers shorter.
Do you know what __________ invented? … They invented talking.
Cavemen
Which of the following were not invented or developed by prehistoric people
clothes, houses and tools, plows to plow with, grains to make bread with, cows for milking, sheep for shearing, dogs for hunting and for company, bows and arrows for shooting and helmets and shields for protection
How long did The Ice Age last?
Many tens of thousands of years!
What reasoning did the writer give for why cavemen drew and painted in caves?
To summon creatures like a magic spell
Because forests were dangerous places in those days, home to large numbers of wild animals, such as wolves and bears, prehistoric people built
Pile dwellings
What were “pile dwellings”?
Huts on stilts rammed deep in the mud in the middle of lakes
What did prehistoric people invent and decorate with patterns and fire in ovens?
Clay pots
What did the cavemen learn to do in the warmth once the ice retreated to the high mountains?
To plant grasses and then grind the seeds to make a paste to bake in the fire: bread
Around 4000 BC, prehistoric people discovered a more convenient way of making tools:
They discovered metals
Which metal did prehistoric people use that “has a nice shine” but is “soft and gets blunt more quickly than stone
Copper
Prehistoric people “discovered that if you add just a little of another, very rare, metal, it makes the copper stronger. That metal is
Tin
Prehistoric people mixed __________ and __________ together to make
Tin, copper, bronze
Near __________ somebody was once digging a pit when they came across a bone, deep down under the ground. It was a human bone.
Heidelberg, in Germany
How did the skull discovered in Germany differ from our human skulls?
Instead of a forehead like ours, it just had two thick ridges above the eyebrows.
What gives “prehistory” its name?
It comes before history.
Which examples of materials did scientists find that change slowly but regularly over a very long period of time?
Answer not listed
Why do historians call it the “Stone Age”?
The primitive peoples built stone tools.
About how long did the Neanderthal people inhabit the earth?
About two hundred thousand years
About how long ago did the Neanderthal people appear in prehistory before our ancestors?
appeared about seventy thousand years earlier
What was the climate like during The Stone Age?
Answer not listed
“Do you know what __________ invented? … They invented talking.
cavemen
Which of the following were not invented or developed by prehistoric people?
clothes, houses and tools, plows to plow with, grains to make bread with, cows for milking, sheep for shearing, dogs for hunting and for company, bows and arrows for shooting and helmets and shields for protection…”
How long did The Ice Age last?
Many tens of thousands of years!
What reasoning did the writer give for why cavemen drew and painted in caves?
We think they have been trying to make magic, that they believed that painting pictures of animals on the walls would make those animals appear … So they may have been trying to invent a magic spell.”
Because forests were dangerous places in those days, home to large numbers of wild animals, such as wolves and bears, prehistoric people built
pile dwellings
What were “pile dwellings”?
‘pile dwellings [were built] in the middle of lakes, huts on stilts rammed deep in the mud.”
What did prehistoric people invent and decorate with patterns and fire in ovens?
pots out of clay
What did the cavemen learn to do in the warmth once the ice retreated to the high mountains?
But gradually the earth grew warmer and the ice retreated to the high mountains, and people—who by now were much like us—learned, with the warmth, to plant grasses and then grind the seeds to make a paste which they could bake in the fire, and this was bread.”
Around 4000 BC, prehistoric people discovered a more convenient way of making tools
They discovered metals
Which metal did prehistoric people use that “has a nice shine” but is “soft and gets blunt more quickly than stone
Copper
Prehistoric people “discovered that if you add just a little of another, very rare, metal, it makes the copper stronger. That metal is
Tin
Prehistoric people mixed __________ and __________ together to make
Tin, copper, bronze
When did Menes rule over Egypt?
5100 years ago
What were the rulers of Ancient Egypt called?
Pharaohs
Of what did the Egyptians not sing in praise of their river four-thousand years ago?
You water the plains and have the power to feed all cattle. You quench the thirsty desert, far from any water. You bring forth the barley, you create the wheat. You 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 not attribute to pharaohs?
Answer not listed
Who was the sun god in Ancient Egypt?
Answer not listed
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-storey 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.
Which of the following was not a method that the Ancient Egyptians used to preserve the bodies of the dead?
They bandaged them with long strips of papyrus so that they wouldn’t decay.
Why did Ancient Egyptians put in food and furniture and clothes in the tombs and create paintings on the walls from the life of the departed?
A tomb was intended to be a dwelling for the soul when it returned to visit its body.
Which of the following is not an example of how Egyptians “knew what they were doing”?
How they pumped water into ditches as a primitive plumbing system
Based on the discoveries found in noblemen’s tombs, how did the king reward his faithful ministers?
Answer not listed
