1st Quarter Review

What is the term for times of extreme cold when great sheets of ice covered parts of the earth?

Ice Age

What is the term for people who study artifacts and

fossils to help them understand the past?

Archaeologists

What is the term for people who study and write about

the human past?

Historian

What is the term used to describe the taming an animal or plant for use by humans?

Domestication

What term is used to describe the skilled workers who made

metal products, cloth, or pottery?

artisans

Who wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life in Mesopotamia?

Hammurabi

What is the name of the tribe who settled in Alaska?

Inuit

What explorer landed in the Americas in 1492?

Christopher Columbus

What did the Mayans do with their captives from war?

Sacrificed them to the gods

What is Adobe?

sun dried brick

What happened to the Maya?

They mysteriously disappeared

According to scientists, how did people cross from Asia to America?

They used a land bridge formed from ice in the Berring

Strait

Where was the Mayan Civilization located?

In a dense tropical rain forest

What term describes a line of rulers that passes from father to son?

dynasty

What is the name for the collection of spells and prayers studied to help obtain the afterlife?

The Book of the Dead

What is the term for an embalmed body wrapped in cloth strips?

Mummy

What is the name for a Jewish religious building where they meet on the Sabbath to pray and discuss

their religion?

synagogue

What is the term for food prepared according to Jewish dietary laws?

kosher

What is the term for a person who claims to be instructed by God to share God’s word?

prophet

Who led the Israelites out of Egypt and into the Sinai Desert?

Moses

What is the term for Jewish religious leaders?

rabbi

Who was the father of the Israelites?

Abraham

What biblical person was the father of 12 sons whose descendants became the 12 tribes of Israel?

Jacob

What is the faith of the Israelites?

Judaism

What terms describe the Nile River?

Gentle and dependable

What Egyptian invention was used to prevent the pharaoh’s body from decomposing?

embalming

What is the term for people who study the physical characteristics and cultures of humans and their

ancestors?

anthropologists

What was the rectangular, tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and

Babylonians in the center of their cities?

ziggurat

What is the name for the Sumerian writing system made up of wedge shaped markings?

cuneiform

What is the name for an independent state made up of a city and the surrounding land and villages?

city-state

What is a long poem that tells about legendary or heroic deeds?

epic

What is the term used to describe a period of forced absence from one’s country or homeland?

exile

What is the name for a Spanish conqueror or soldier in the Americas?

conquistador

What area is considered the “cradle of civilization”?

The Tigris and Euphrates River Valley

Who was Hernan Cortes?

Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs

What is the term for the agreement that God made with Abraham?

Covenant

What is the name of the Jewish religious text?

Torah

What term is used to describe the creation of many different types of jobs?

specialization

What is the name for a weapon, tool, or other item made by humans?

artifact

Who were the mound builders?

An Indian tribal group who built huge mounds of earth in the shape of animals.

What is the term for a complex society with government, art, religion, social classes, and writing?

civilization

What is the longest river in the world?

The Nile River

What is a proverb?

A wise saying

What is the name of the earliest period of human history?

The Stone Age

What is the term for belief in one God?

monotheism

What is irrigation?

Bringing water to a field from another place

What two diseases did the Spanish bring into the Americas from Europe?

Smallpox and measles