WorksheetsSEA-Timeline I
Total questions: 33
Worksheet time: 17mins
According to scientists, _______ _________ are the first modern humans.
Early Neanderthals
Homo Sapiens
Neanderthal Patrons
Adam, Eve
_________are Homo Sapiens failed cousins, another species of people.
Primates
Denisovans
Neanderthals
Hermits
________is yellow, red, and brown earthy oxides mixed with water and used as pigments by Neanderthals or Homo Sapiens to create the Cave Art.
Ochre
Paint
Oil
Acrylic
_________are a sheet or sheets made of plastic in which lettering or a design has been cut so that ink or paint applied to the sheet will reproduce a pattern on a surface beneath. (AHC Dictionary)
Paraffins
Papers
Vellums
Stencils
It is unclear what the artists who created the Cave Art used as a/an _______.
Paraffin
Paper
Vellum
Stencil
New dating technology suggests that __________are responsible for some of the first cave art, rather than modern humans, as previously believed.
Primates
Denisovans
Neanderthals
Hermit
If the new discovery regarding Neanderthals proves true, it would suggest that they were capable of more ________ thought than scholars previously suspected.
Complex
Abstract
Intelligent
All of the above
None of the above
New tests on the rock and calcium carbonate that formed over parts of the ochre show that they were painted _________ years ago.
10
100
10000
65,000
65,000 years ago is 20,000 years before the first humans got to Europe.
True
False
D. Hoffman (one of the scientists involved with this new theory) suggests that making these paintings might well have required planning, organization, perhaps even _______, though he acknowledges that that is speculation.
Computers
Force
Language
Grass
The author’s main purpose is to share a discovery about Cave Art that has the potential to change the way we view __________.
Humans
Denisovans
Hermit
Neanderthals
The article emphasizes that our ideas and understanding of the past are constantly _________ with new discoveries.
Changing
Evolving
Growing
None of the above
All of the above
Around 1800 BCE is the time of ________, father of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.
Abraham
David
Jesus
John
To judge Abraham’s faith, God commanded that he kill his son, David.
True
False
Abraham planned to do as God commanded and kill his son, Isaac. Just as Abraham was about to stab his son, a/an ________ appeared and stopped him.
Devil
Angel
Shepherd
Prophet
We have studied _________ ________painting of this Biblical scene (Abraham and Isaace).
Michelangelo’s Renaissance
Rembrandt’s Baroque
David’s Neoclassical
Picasso’s Modern
The Trojan War might have happened around _______ BCE.
1800
1200
900
588
Thought to have been only a legend until the Modern Era (1890-1960), scholars now believe the Trojan War really occurred in the country we now call
Greece.
Rome.
Turkey.
Russia.
1010-970 BCE King ________ was famous for killing the giant Philistine, Goliath, when he was still just a shepherd.
David
Solomen
George
James
Cerca 900 BCE, _________ is thought to have written The Iliad and The Odyssey about the Trojan War.
Shakespeare
Ovid
Homer
Hemmingway
No one really knows who Homer was, or if Homer was a woman or a man.
True
False
The Odyssey is an _______ poem. “An _______ is a long narrative poem about a national or legendary hero.
Limerick
Fable
Christian
Epic
Ancient Greece produced two epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey, which are considered the first great works of Western Literature.
True
False
The Iliad stars _________, a brave and vicious hero.
Achilles
Odysseus
Ulyseus
Agamemnon
The Odyssey is named for its hero, ___________,” who the Ancient Romans called Ulysses. (Adventures in Reading)
Achilles
Odysseus
Ulyseus
Agamemnon
The birth of Odysseus’ son,__________, caused Odysseus to dodge his draft to the Trojan War.
Menalaus
Agamemnon
Telemachus
Achilles
_______, the goddess of wisdom, is the goddess that looks over Odysseus.
Hera
Aphrodite
Athena
Ares
_________, wife of Menalaus, King of Sparta, was the cause of the Trojan War.
Athena
Helen
Hera
Hestia
While Prince _______ of Troy visited Menalaus and Helen in Sparta, he stole Helen away and took her to Troy.
Hectar
Achilles
Odysseus
Paris
The Greek Kings had agreed to protect the marriage of Menalaus and Helen, so Greece gathered all of their kings, and 1000 ships, and attacked the walled city of _______ to get Helen back from Prince Paris.
Troy
Ithaca
Sparta
Athens
Some of the Greek kings were Odysseus, Menalaus, and Agamemnon, their leader.
True
False
____________ was the Greek killed by Prince Paris.
Hectar
Paris
Odysseus
Achilles
The death of Achilles nearly broke the __________spirit to continue the Trojan War.
Trojans’
Athenians’
Greeks’
Etruscans’
