1. 1 st Quarter Review

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

3. What is the term for people who study artifacts and fossils to help them understand the past? Archaeologists

4. What is the term for people who study and write about the human past? Historian

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

6. What term is used to describe the skilled workers who made metal products, cloth, or pottery? artisans

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

8. What is the name of the tribe who settled in Alaska? Inuit

9. What explorer landed in the Americas in 1492? Christopher Columbus

10. What did the Mayans do with their captives from war? Sacrificed them to the gods

11. What is Adobe? sun dried brick

12. What happened to the Maya? They mysteriously disappeared

13. According to scientists, how did people cross from Asia to America? They used a land bridge formed from ice in the Berring Strait

14. Where was the Mayan Civilization located? In a dense tropical rain forest

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

16. What is the name for the collection of spells and prayers studied to help obtain the afterlife? The Book of the Dead

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

18. What is the name for a Jewish religious building where they meet on the Sabbath to pray and discuss their religion? synagogue

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

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

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

22. What is the term for Jewish religious leaders? rabbi

23. Who was the father of the Israelites? Abraham

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

25. What is the faith of the Israelites? Judaism

26. What terms describe the Nile River? Gentle and dependable

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

28. What is the term for people who study the physical characteristics and cultures of humans and their ancestors? anthropologists

29. What was the rectangular, tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians in the center of their cities? ziggurat

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

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

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

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

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

35. What area is considered the “cradle of civilization”? The Tigris and Euphrates River Valley

36. Who was Hernan Cortes? Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs

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

38. What is the name of the Jewish religious text? Torah

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

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

41. Who were the mound builders? An Indian tribal group who built huge mounds of earth in the shape of animals.

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

43. What is the longest river in the world? The Nile River

44. What is a proverb? A wise saying

45. What is the name of the earliest period of human history? The Stone Age

46. What is the term for belief in one God? monotheism

47. What is irrigation? Bringing water to a field from another place

48. What two diseases did the Spanish bring into the Americas from Europe? Smallpox and measles