HS World History: Quiz 1

World History: Sumer, Egypt

What is history?

History is a written record

What is the central event of history?

Christ

What are the primary and secondary sources?

Primary sources: raw materials, from the time of event

Secondary sources: explain or interpret primary sorces, from a later time

In the beginning…

…God created the heveans and the earth

There is one race, the…

A nation?

What is a fertile crescent?

a narrow strip of land in the middle east

What does Mesopotamia mean?

“between two rivers”

What two rivers are in Mesopotamia?

Tigres and Euphrates

What special plow was used in Sumer?

sedar plow

How was cuneiform made/written?

It means “wedge”

What city-state in Sumer had a “Golden Age”

Ur

What is the main river in ancient egypt

the nile

why were things so well preserved in egypt?

the tropical zone, things do not decay quickly

What is papyrus?

a material prepared in ancient Egypt from the pithy stem of a water plant, used in sheets throughout the ancient Mediterranean world for writing or painting on and also for making rope, sandals, and boats.