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Where in Germany were people digging where they came across a human bone?

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Heidelberg

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What did people find while digging in Heidelberg?

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A human bone

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What kind of bone was discovered in Heidelberg?

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A lower jaw

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Where was a human skull found in Germany?

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In Neander Valley

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What qualities defined the bone that people found in Heidelberg?

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Massive, strong, powerful, teeth

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What was found in Neander Valley?

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A human skull

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What qualities defined the skull In Neander Valley?

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No forehead with two thick ridges above the eyebrows instead

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How are we perhaps different from the neanderthal people?

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They might not have been good at thinking but were better at biting than us

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What did scientists find about wood and plants and Volcanic rocks?

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They change slowly but regularly over a very long period of time

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How long did the search for bones last?

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More than a hundred and fifty years ago

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Why is it called prehistory?

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Because It came before history

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How did prehistoric people get away from the freezing cold?

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The prehistoric people came across a cave for shelter

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Do you know what the prehistoric people invented?

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They invented talking

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The prehistoric people invented something else?

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They also invented pictures

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Why did the prehistoric people paint animals on their walls?

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Because the caves were dark

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How long did the Ice age last?

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For tens and thousands of years

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Did the earth grow warmer?

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Yes

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18
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Did the ice retreat when the earth grew warmer?

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Yes

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What wild animals were in the forest?

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Wolves and bears

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What were the prehistoric people masters at?

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Shaping and polishing

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How long ago did Neanderthal people appear?

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seventy thousand years earlier

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In Asia and Africa what was found there?

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Bones

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What was as old as the Heidelberg jaw?

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Bones

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When did the people find a better way to make tools?

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4000 BCE

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What was melted into the fire called?
Copper
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What did the people use for protection?
Helmets and Shields
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What did they use to fight?
Bows and arrows
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Which three ages were there?
1. Stone Age 2. Ice Age 3. Bronze Age
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People didn't know how to build what?
Houses
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How did they make fire?
By rubbing two sticks together
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5100 years ago there was a king what was his name?
Menes
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Where does the setting take place?
In Egypt
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Who worshiped the Nile like it was God?
Egyptians
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What flies south to Italy?
Swallows
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What was a king of Egypt called?
Pharaohs
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Who believed in many gods?
Egyptians
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Which king lived in 2500 BC?
King Cheops
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What was a single block of granite called?
Obelisks
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Where can you see an Obelisk?
London by the Thames
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What kind of animal was sacred ?
Sphinx
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What kind of whip did the kings have?
Hippopotamus skin whip
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How long have Sphinx been guarding the tombs of pharaohs?
For more than five thousand years
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What did they rub on dead people?
Ointments and the juices of certain plants
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A dead body preserved today is called a what?
Mummy
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What was a coffin made out of?
Wood
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Why did they use long strips of cloth?
So it wouldn't decay
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A blank what intended to be a dwelling?
Tomb
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Who was immensely powerful?
Pharaohs
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In the hymn what did they talk about?
Barley, wheat and cattle
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Twice a year blank filled it's sources?
Heavy rain
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When the waters blank?
withdrew
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What was the name of the sun god, and the god of the dead?
Sun God- Amon The God of the dead- Anubis
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What was King Cheops Tomb made out of?
A whole stone mountain
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A tomb was intended to be a blank for the soul?
Dwelling for the soul when it returned to visit its body
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Which Egyptian God had the head of a jackal?
Anubis
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What was represented in animal form?
Gods
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Would you like to hear a hymn they sang to their river happened how long ago?
Four thousand years ago
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What is a cathedral?
A large church
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Who summoned all his subjects to help construct his tomb?
King Cheops
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But the mummies of other kings and those of many ancient Egyptians have been blank in their tombs?
undisturbed
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They had no machines in those days what did they have instead ?
Only rollers and pulleys
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For thirty years, some hundred thousand toiled for the blank?
Pharaoh
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They had to blank and blank every single block by hand
Pull and Shove
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How many days are there in the week ?
Seven
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What were the names of the two rivers?
Tigris and Euphrates
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Mesopotamia is Greek for what?
The land between the rivers
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Great cities laid out with long what?
Straight streets, tall houses, palaces and temples
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What was the greatest city on earth?
Babylon
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What was the second greatest city called?
Nineveh
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Blank was the capital for Babylonians?
Babylon
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Who was in charge of the Assyrians?
Nineveh
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Many blank and many blank held power at different times?
Tribes and Kings
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Who were the three most important groups/tribes?
Sumerians, Babylonians and Assyrians
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In Egyptian culture they had blank?
Towns, Noblemen, Temples, and Priests , Administrators ,Artists, Kings, Tradesmen ,writing and technical skills
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Sumerians were ahead of the what?
Egyptians
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People learned how to shape blank from blank?
Bricks from Clay
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People learned how to build houses and temples by?
3100 BC
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Where can you find the largest mounds?
The city of Ur
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A region in the Middle East is know called what?
Iraq
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The Tigris and Euphrates join together and flow out to where?
Persian Gulf
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Mesopotamia is not in Africa but where?
Asia
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If you dig through bricks and rubble, you meet blank?
Stout and high walls
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Cuneiform means what?
Wedge Shaped
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Books made of papyrus were unknown to?
Mesopotamia
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Inscriptions were not found in?
Hieroglyphs
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The oldest book law- book was known as the?
Code of Hammurabi
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King Hammurabi lived around 1700 BC how long ago was that?
That was 3700 years ago
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The Babylonians and the Assyrians were blank and blank?
Disciplined and Hardworking
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But they didn't paint blank like the Egyptians?
Cheerful Pictures
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Where can you find treasures?
At the British Museum, The University of Pennsylvania
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Where else can you find treasures?
At the museum of Baghdad In Iraq
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What did people do to tablets of soft clay?
They put them in the oven
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Who battled Monsters and Dragons?
Gilgamesh
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Kings had temples built for all eternity and what else?
And all the nations they have conquered
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Merchants recorded their business dealing, contracts, receipts and what else?
And the inventories of goods
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What did kings have?
Long black ringlets
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Somethings the tribes were shown making sacrifices to who?
Baal the sun good or the moon goddess Ishtar or Astarte
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Who worshiped the sun and the moon and the stars?
Babylonians and The Assyrians
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What was reappearing every night?
The vault of Heaven
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Mars meant wars and what did Venus mean?
Love
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What was dedicated a day?
Each of the five plants
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These half ruined blank can still be seen today?
Ziggurats
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The earliest kings lived as long ago as?
3000 BC
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Ziggurats were poking out of what?
Rubble mounds
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Who was the last Babylonian King?
Nebuchadnezzar
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Nebuchadnezzar lived around Blank BC?
600 BC
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Nebuchadnezzar was remembered for his blank?
Feats of war
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He fought against Egypt to bring home what to Babylon?
Foreign Captives
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Nebuchadnezzar used the foreign captives as what?
Slaves
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Those fierce kings had what?
Long, Black beards
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The land today is a what?
Desert wasteland and marshy plain
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Foreign tribes did what?
They attacked fortresses
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Weekdays started how long ago?
thousand of years ago

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