Early History Unit 5
Q1. Write down the difference between how prehistoric humans got their food
and water and how we got our today?
Prehistoric humans got their food by hunting fishing and gatherings.
They got their water from rainfall, rivers, and lakes.
We are getting food now by agriculture and water surface and ground.
Q2. How the houses of people from prehistoric from one another?
Answer: In prehistoric age people lived as hunters and gatherers they move from
one place to other.in stone age people settled in caves they also made shelters
with leaves, mud, and stones.
Q3. In stone age why people start to do others job as well as hunting or
farming?
Answer: when people started to settle outside from caves, they learn to cultivate
fields near rivers people started to keep domestic animals, people began to do
other works such as fishing and making pottery and jewellery to make their lives
more settle.
Q4. what new inventions came in metal age?
Answer: They start making things from gold, they used gold for making jewellery,
plates, and cups for wealthy people. Cooper was used for making weapons.
Q5. What change made the stone age different from the prehistoric age?
Answer: People in the stone age painted the walls of their caves with drawings of
hunting animals with their weapons. They made shelters with leaves, mud, and
stones, soon they learnt to cultivate fields near rivers and streams.
Q6. What problems did people living in settlements face?
Answer: They always remain in danger of attack from other groups who were
looking for better places to settle or needed food and water.
Q7. What is the important about the code of Hammurabi?
Answer: the code of Hammurabi is the text we have from the Babylonian time.
The 282 laws carved on the black stone are the oldest written laws in history.
They also list the punishment for breaking any law.
Q8. Explain why they faced the problems and how they solved them?
Answer: people had too little food, in adequate shelter. Human filth was in
escapable. They protect their settlements with moats and fences, used weapons
to fight off invaders.
Q9. what brought the decline of Mesopotamians?
Answer: Mesopotamians declined when it was conquered by the Persian king
Cyrus II IN 539 BEC.
Q10 What you have learnt about early history?
Answer: I learnt that history is the study of past records and artifacts excavated by
archeologists.it can guide us not to repeat mistakes made in the past by humans.
Q11.Describe the contribution of Mesopotamians through the discoveries and
invention made by them.
Answer: they invented many things that are still use today.
1. Mathematics
2. Astrology
3. Time and clock
4. Calendar
5. Writing
Q12. If you want to decide whether a settlement was a civilization, what would
you look for?
Answer: Seven facts about civilization
1. Good system of water and food.
2. A social system with leader.
3. A government
4. A religion and a way of treating people who die.
5. Art
6. Inventions
7. Writing and a way to record information.
Fill in the blanks.
1.History is the study of the past.
2.Archaeologists are professionals who study clues from past culture and ancient
people.
3.prehistoric humans lived on food they could find by hunting and gathering.
4.Early humans first appeared in Africa from where they migrated to other parts
of world.
5. Mesopotamia is a word from the Greek language that means land between two
rivers.
6.The land that was Mesopotamia was mainly between the rivers Tigris and
Euphrates.
7.The old Arabic word for sumer was Al-Jazirah.
8.the present -day countries in the land that was Mesopotamia are Iraq.
9.the founder of the Mesopotamia Empire was king Sargon.
