Maps and Globes Charts and Timelines Primary and Secondary Sources Prehistoric Humans The Bronze Age
100
What is a Cognate Word ?
Words that have a similar spelling, meaning and pronunciation between two different languages.
100
What is a timeline ?
A linear representation of historical events displayed in chronological order.
100
What is a Secondary Source ?
The Greek historian Arrian, who wrote a history of Alexander the Great about 300 years after Alexander's death.
100
What is a "Hunter-Gatherer."
A human who hunts animals and collects wild fruits and vegetables to survive.
100
What is writing ?
History begins when people learned how to do this.
200
What is a globe ?
They are harder to use than a map, because everything on it is very small.
200
What is a historical chart ?
A way of organizing historical information in a way that makes it easy to understand information and compare historical data.
200
What is a Primary Source ?
The diary of Abraham Lincoln.
200
What is The Stone Age.
The name of the age is based on the fact that most human tools were made of stone.
200
What is Bronze ?
This compound metal is produced by the fusion of tin and copper.
300
What are physical maps and political maps ?
The two kinds of maps we have discussed in class.
300
What is a historical graph ?
A diagram that shows the relationship between two historical variables, measured along one of a pair of axes at right angles.
300
What is a Secondary Source?
An ancient copy of the Lotus Sutra, which records the words of the Buddha but was written about 200 years after his death.
300
What is The Ice Age.
The name of the age is based on the fact that most of the world was frozen over at that time.
300
Who are the Sumerians ?
These people are credited with inventing both writing and the wheel.
400
What is a political map ?
On these maps, colors are used to distinguish national boundaries.
400
What are cognate words ?
Cartography / Cartografia
400
What is a Primary Source?
A Sumerian clay tablet that lists religious offerings for a Temple.
400
What is farming ?
Once people learned how to do this, they could settle down and build larger villages.
400
Who was Hammurabi ?
He wrote "The Code of Hammurabi."
500
What is a physical map ?
On these maps, colors are used to distinguish elevation.
500
What is Seven Billion ?
According to the historical graph on world population that was presented in class, what is the present world population ?
500
What is a Primary Source.
The Gallic Wars, written by Julius Caesar about his conquest of Gaul.
500
What is irrigation ?
People learned how to dig ditches to allow water to flow into farming fields.
500
Who were the Assyrians ?
These people were hated by all nations because of their deliberate policy of cruelty and terrorism.






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