The type of agriculture used in Ancient Egypt when crops were harvested after Nile River floods
Irrigation agriculture
Around which year was writing invented?
3000 B.C.E
How many kings ruled Sparta?
2
In which year did Columbus discover the Americas?
1492 A.D.
True or false: Tools in the Stone Age were made with stone, bones, and antlers.
True
The Stone Age is divided into which two periods?
Paleolithic and Neolithic
True or False: People in the Neolithic era lived mostly sedentary lives.
True
True or False: Hominids had developed opposable thumbs.
True
True or false: The Spartan Council was comprised of 100 aristrocrats.
False, 28.
Part of Athenian houses reserved for men.
Andron
Name one of the rights that women had in Ancient Egypt.
owning property, buying/selling goods, taking legal action, be pharaoh or priest
Dinner for male aristocrats in Ancient Greece
Symposium
Stone tools in the Stone Age were made using a technique called ________.
Carving
Which important historical event happened in 476 A.D.?
Fall of Rome
Sparta was an ______, where only a small group of people had power.
Oligarchy
The art and science of extracting metals from their ores and modifying the metals for use is known as ___________
Metallurgy
True or False: Hellas is what Ancient Greeks called their territory.
True
This word is used to describe societies that are constantly on the move
Nomadic
Name two examples of tools made by carving in the Stone Age.
Axe, arrowhead, knife, hammer, bow and arrow.
True or False: The Pharaoh was not seen as a religious figure.
False, the Pharaoh was seen almost as a god
What name did Ancient Greeks call themselves?
Hellenes
The period of history ranging from 3000 B.C. to 500 A.D.
Ancient history
True or false: Around 1-1.5 million B.C. is when humans discovered fire.
True
In Ancient Egypt, who was believed to ¨control¨ the floods of the Nile River?
Pharaoh
Independent city-states with their own government, laws, army, and money in Ancient Greece.
Poleis
Name one of the Ancient Greek colonies established in present-day Spain.
Rhode, Emporion (Empuries), Hemeroskopeion
What was the process of carving in the Stone Age?
This consisted of hitting one stone against another to make tools.
In the Neolithic era, _________ developed, which made tools more resistant and smooth.
Polishing
Order the following according to the social pyramid of Ancient Egypt: (merchants,soldiers,peasants) ; (pharaoh) ; (nobles, priests, scribes) ; (slaves)
A. Pharaoh. B. Nobles, priests, scribes. C. Merchants, soldiers, peasants. D. Slaves.
A city center built on high ground in Ancient Greece
acropolis
the mother city or parent state of a Greek colony.
Metropolis
True or false: Girls in Athens went to school.
False
The Ecclesia was the Assembly of Ancient ____
Athens
An open-air square for markets in Ancient Greece
Agora
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