history

Question 1

what is prehistory, neolithic, megaliths, dolmen, menhir

Answer 1

prehistory-before writing was invented
neolithic- new stone age
megaliths- huge stone
dolmen- huge horizontal stone
menhir- huge vertical/upright stone

Question 2

what are the 3 periods Maltese prehistory is split up into?

Answer 2

neolithic, temple period, bronze age

Question 3

evidence suggests that humans arrived in malta _______ years ago and that they lived in ______. the first evidence of humans in malta was discovered in ____ _____. after caves they started to build _____. the first evidence of huts was discovered in ______.

Answer 3

7,400
caves
ghar dalam
huts
skorba

Question 4

the first people in malta were most probably from _____ because…..

Answer 4

sicily
sicily is close to malta and the pottery designs are similar to the ones found in sicily

Question 5

people would ____ for food and _____ _______ to eat them. prehistoric people were also _____ meaning they would eat ____ and _____ by… In around ______ BC humans started _______ animals and growing their own _____ which we call the ________ evolution. it started in the fertile crescent which is now _____ and ____ where there used to be _____________

Answer 5

hunt
kill animals
gatherers
nuts
fruit
gathering them from trees and bushes
10,000
domesticating
crops
agricultural
egypt
palestine
mesopotamia

Question 6

ghar dalam is located in ______ and its the ______ prehistoric site. ghar dalam suggests that malta was connected to _____ by a _____ during the ___ ___ because fossils of ____ ____, _____ and _____ were found.

Answer 6

birzebbuga
oldest
sicily
land bridge
ice age
dwarf elephants, hippos and bears

Question 7

sir ____ _____ was born in ______ in _____. he was the first director of the ________ ____ of ______ in ______. he led the excavation of ______ temples. he is acclaimed of introducing the first _____ _____ excavation in malta. he left all the pictures and observation sin his notebook

Answer 7

temi zammit
valletta
1864
national museum of archeology
valletta
tarxien
systamic archeological

Question 8

the hal salflieni hypogeum is an ______ _____ ____ ___ used in ____-____ BC. its made up of _ levels and several interconnecting rock cut chambers. it was discovered in ___ by __ _____ _____. the excavation took place in ___-___ until he died in tunisia. __ ___ ___ took over the excavation until _____. in ____ the queen visited. it has been a UNESCO world heritage site since ____. the first ___ ___ was found here. it was opened in ___ but closed from ___ to ___ because the amount of people visiting the site was causing negative affects. it was opened again in ___ and now they only let ___ people go in for ___ hours per day to keep ____ and ____ at required levels. the hypogeum is the the only prehistoric burial site open to the public in malta

Answer 8

underground prehistoric burial site
4000-2500
3
1902 by fr. emanuel magri1904-1906
sir temi zammit
1911
1912
1980
sleeping lady
1912
1990-2000
2017
10
6
temperature and humidity

Question 9

they got the stones to build the temples by ______. they were built in the _____and all their tools were _____. the megalith in hagar qim is estimated to weigh over __ tonnes and another megalith in hagar qim is . meters high. the megaliths could have been moved by… [5]

Answer 9

quarrying
neolithic/new stone age
stone
20
5.2
rolled on logs of wood, rolled on round stones, pulled, pushed, pulled by animals

Question 10

archeologists believe they could have built an _____ ___ to get the huge stones up. for themselves they built ___ while for their gods they built _____.

Answer 10

inclined plank
huts
temples

Question 11

how was tarxien temples discovered, excavated by and the _ sections were built in ____ times

Answer 11

by a farmer
sir temi zammit
3
different

Question 12

ggantija is located in ____