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Title: A student's study-guide in ancient history; a combination of outlines, map work and questions to aid in visualizing, understanding and remembering the important facts of ancient history and in grasping a sense of the modern world's debt to the peoples of ancient times
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Southworth, Gertrude Van Duyn, b. 1874
Subjects: History, Ancient History, Ancient
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : Iroquois publishing company, inc.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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andthought? Give reasons. Into what ages are prehistoric times di-vided ? Describe the life of a man in the StoneAge. Give four great contributions made toprogress by prehistoric man.How is the approximate date for thebeginning of ancient history being con-tinually pushed back to earlier times?Into what periods is ancient historydivided ? What date marks the close of ancienthistory ?Define savagery, barbarism, civilization. IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES AND ACHIEVEMENTSOF PREHISTORIC MAN The use of fire in cooking food, baking clay and smelting ores. The making of language, or the use of a given sound to convey agiven meaning. The invention of writing by means of pictures or symbols. The making of metal implements for weapons and for tilling the soil. The cultivation of the soil and the raising of crops. The domestication of the horse, the dog, the sheep, the goat andother animals. The making of pottery by molding clay into pots and baking them. The building; of mud or reed huts for shelter.
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THE ORIENTAL NATIONS Egypt 5000 B.C. (.?)—525 B.C. MAP WORK Enclose and name the delta of the Nile; the valley of the Nile. Locate and name the First Cataract. Write in the names by which the delta and the valley were known to theEgyptians. Locate and name the first capital of the Old Empire. liOcate and name the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx at Gizeh. Locate and name the city of Thebes. Locate and name Lake Moeris. Locate and name the Rock Tombs of Beni Hassan. Enclose and name the empire of the Shepherd kings. Write in the approx-imate dates of their rule. QUESTIONS 1. Describe the river Nile and show why 5. Give the name of the Pharaoh who Egypt has rightly been called The founded the first Egyptian dynasty, gift of the Nile. and the approximate date of its be- Name the race of men and the grouji ginnnig. 6. Tell about the invasion of the Hyksos to which the ancient Egyptians belonged. What are the sources of our informa- ^^ Shepherd kings, and give the results. tion regardmg the

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