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Pre-History and Fertile Crescent
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Vocab Basics Paleolithic Neolithic Meso 10 20 30 40 50
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Means before written record
Question Means before written record
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Answer 1 – 10 Pre-History
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Question What is the purpose of a timeline?
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To measure time and events
Answer 1 – 20 To measure time and events
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What is our current scientific classification?
Question What is our current scientific classification?
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Answer 1 – 30 Homo Sapien
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Which came first, Anno Domini or Before Christ? How do we know?
Question Which came first, Anno Domini or Before Christ? How do we know?
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Before Christ because it is first on a timeline
Answer 1 – 40 Before Christ because it is first on a timeline
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Question What is the belief in more than one god?
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Answer 1 – 50 Polytheism
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What is an archeologist?
Question What is an archeologist?
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A person who studies the past
Answer 2 – 10 A person who studies the past
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Question What dating method dates artifacts by figuring out how old the soil is?
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Answer 2 – 20 Stratigraphy
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Carbon 14 dating can only date what?
Question Carbon 14 dating can only date what?
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Things that were once living
Answer 2 – 30 Things that were once living
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Question Name two examples of artifacts archeologists would study in the pre-historic era
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Answer 2 – 40 Fossils Bones Clay pots Cave paintings Stones
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Question
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Answer 2 – 50
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What does Paleolithic mean?
Question What does Paleolithic mean?
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Answer 3 – 10 Old Stone Age
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What was the job of Paleolithic people?
Question What was the job of Paleolithic people?
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Answer 3 – 20 Hunt and gather
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How did fire change the lives of Paleolithic people?
Question How did fire change the lives of Paleolithic people?
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Answer 3 – 30 Cook food Scare animals Food lasts longer
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Why was the Paleolithic lifestyle hard?
Question Why was the Paleolithic lifestyle hard?
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Answer 3 – 40 Unsure of food Move around Short lifespan
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Question First book of fiction
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Answer 3 – 50 Gilgamesh
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What does Neolithic mean?
Question What does Neolithic mean?
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Answer 4 – 10 New Stone Age
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What was the Neolithic Revolution?
Question What was the Neolithic Revolution?
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Change from hunt/gather to farming
Answer 4 – 20 Change from hunt/gather to farming
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What does domestication mean?
Question What does domestication mean?
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Answer 4 – 30 To tame wild animals
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Question How did farming start?
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Answer 4 – 40 Accidentally spill seeds Build fences around animals
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Question Why did people settle in Mesopotamia?
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Answer 4 – 50 Fertile Soil Transportation Fishing Trade Water
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What does Mesopotamia mean?
Question What does Mesopotamia mean?
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Land between the rivers (Tigris and Euphrates)
Answer 5 – 10 Land between the rivers (Tigris and Euphrates)
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What/where was a ziggurat?
Question What/where was a ziggurat?
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Temple in the center of town
Answer 5 – 20 Temple in the center of town
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How would people water their crops?
Question How would people water their crops?
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Build levees and irrigation canals
Answer 5 – 30 Build levees and irrigation canals
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How did someone become a slave?
Question How did someone become a slave?
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Answer 5 – 40 Debt Prisoner of war Criminal
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Name two Sumerian inventions and how they were used
Question Name two Sumerian inventions and how they were used
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Answer 5 – 50 Plow- farm Wheel- move heavy objects
Sailboat- fish, transportation Beer- money and nutrition
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