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30 Cards in this Set
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Define your History
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Your history is the story of what happened to you from the moment you were born, all the way up to the present.
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People who read letters, journals, other documents, and momuments to find out what happened in the past are called ________________
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Historians
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The story they write about the past is called _____________
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History
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What are the two different ways we may learn about the history of people who lived long-ago
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1) through journals, letters and other written records left behind
2)The story of wars left on monuments or stone letters about a king's victory at war |
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What is archaeology?
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Discovery the history of people by what is left behind which are dug up
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Historians who dig objects out of the ground and learn from them are called ____________
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archaelogists
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The earliest people are known as ________________
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Nomads
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Nomad means
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a person who wanders or roams around
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A nomad women's and childrens job was to
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dig up roots, pick nuts, berries and plants. Collect other types of food, such as eggs, wild honey and lizards and snakes.
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A nomad man's job was to
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Hunt for meat with spears, ows and arrows. If the men were by a lake they would fish too.
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After the nomads had picked most of their food source and very few animals were left to hunt, what would they do?
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Move to another place where there was plenty of food and drinking water.
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Nomads lived over ___________ years ago
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7000
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In the warm climates, what did the nomads use to build their tents.
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Use animals hides and stretch them over wooden frames. They would take these from place to place
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In the colder climates, what did the nomads use for shelter.
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Caves
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How do historians today know Nomads lived in caves?
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they left behind pictures on the cave walls, which can still be seen today.
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What was the best place during this time for Nomads to live?
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Fertile Crescent
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Why was this land called the Fertile Crescent?
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The land was shaped like a crescent moon and fertile because it was between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
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The nomads who settled in the Fertile Crescent were becoming ________________.
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Farmers
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The nomads who chose to live year round at the Fertile Crescent started doing what so they would not run out of food?
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Planting and sowing grain
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How did the farmers get the water from the river to their fields of grain?
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dug canals from the rivers out into their fields
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What tpe of irrigation device did the ancient farmers use to get the water from the canals to water their grain?
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Shaduf
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What was considered to be one of the first farm machines
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Shaduf
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Farmers who lived by rivers began to build houses instead of living in tents. What did they build their 1st houses from?
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Houses were made of reed or bricks there were made from mud and left to dry in sun
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Farmers decided it was better for them to build houses close together so they could all help each other farm. This was considered to be the first _______________
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Villages
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Villages were often built around a ________________ or _____________ filed where their tame animals were kept.
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1) central pen
2) field |
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Farmers began to trade their grains, sheeps wool and animals skins to others for ______________________
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metals, pottery, wood and other goods
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Farmers started becoming fearful of attacks on their villages by bandits so they built a __________________
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wall around their village.
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When farmers built a wall around their village, this became known as a _________
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City
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One of the earliest Cities is
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city of Jericho
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Jerico had one of the strongest walls of the ancient times. How tall and thick was it.
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10 feet thick and 13 feet high
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