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| 7214296424 | Calendars are | human inventions | 0 | |
| 7214297018 | circa means | around | 1 | |
| 7214297968 | Who was probably the first to make calendars | Egyptians (3,500 years ago) | 2 | |
| 7214299764 | Calendars based on the movement of the moon | lunar calendars | 3 | |
| 7214300925 | Calendars based on the movement of earth around the moon | solar calendars | 4 | |
| 7214303540 | Many early calendars link their beginning to | an important event | 5 | |
| 7214305784 | The Islamic calendar is a | lunar calendar | 6 | |
| 7214311064 | What was wrong with the older Roman calendar? | it had too many days | 7 | |
| 7214312294 | The modern western calendar is made from the | Julian Calendar | 8 | |
| 7214315023 | Caesar borrowed the ideas for the calendar from | Egyptians/Cleopatra | 9 | |
| 7214316972 | The starting point of the Roman calendar was | the founding of Rome (709 years before the calendar) | 10 | |
| 7214319453 | What religion spiritually conquered the Roman Empire | Christianity | 11 | |
| 7214320405 | What monk rebuilt the Julian calendar | Dionysus | 12 | |
| 7214321637 | What did the new christian calendar revolve around | the birth of Christ | 13 | |
| 7214322905 | Jesus' birth is actually closer to | 4 BC | 14 | |
| 7214323649 | Romans did not have the concept of ______ in their numbering | zero | 15 | |
| 7214325433 | anno domini means | in the year of our lord | 16 | |
| 7214329486 | The first century started with the year ______ and ended at the end of year _____ | 1;100 | 17 | |
| 7214331401 | 1776 is in what century? | 18th | 18 | |
| 7214712643 | 500 | 5th | 19 | |
| 7214713108 | 601 | 7th | 20 | |
| 7214713971 | 12 | 1st | 21 | |
| 7214714568 | 1267 | 13th | 22 | |
| 7214715694 | CE stands for | common era | 23 | |
| 7214718973 | What was wrong with the Dionysius calendar | leap year added too much time | 24 | |
| 7214723935 | Who fixed the calendar in 1582 (pope) | Gregory XIII | 25 | |
| 7215159474 | What was the solution to fixing the Dionysius calendar? | reduce the number of leap years | 26 | |
| 7215162365 | Why did England refuse to add this calendar? | they were protestant christians | 27 | |
| 7215164182 | Who still uses the Julian Calendar | Russian Orthodox Church | 28 | |
| 7215167780 | Romans originally had ______ months | 10 | 29 | |
| 7215169229 | July is named after ______ | Julius Caesar | 30 | |
| 7215169709 | August is named after _______ | Augustus Caesar | 31 | |
| 7215173890 | Who declared sunday the first day of the week | The first Christian Emperor | 32 | |
| 7215175558 | Sunday worships the ____ | sun | 33 | |
| 7215176768 | Monday worships the ____ | moon | 34 | |
| 7215177602 | tuesday is for ___ | mars (romans) | 35 | |
| 7215178527 | wednesday is for __ | mercury (woden) | 36 | |
| 7215180901 | thursday is for ____ | jupiter (thor) | 37 | |
| 7215181415 | friday is for ___ | venus (freya) | 38 | |
| 7215182835 | saturday is for _____ | saturn (Sateren's day) | 39 | |
| 7215185045 | The Gregorian calendar is also called the | Western calendar or Christian calendar | 40 | |
| 7215187985 | The calendar years changed from 365.25 days to | 365.2425 (365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes, and 12 seconds) | 41 | |
| 7215190961 | The gregorian calendar included a reduction of | 10 minutes and 48 seconds each year | 42 | |
| 7215647678 | ___% of the time humans have existed, people did not farm | 95 | 43 | |
| 7215651396 | In the Paleolithic era they practiced | hunting and gathering | 44 | |
| 7215653188 | In the Paleolithic era, they used _____ rather than ______ | stone;metal | 45 | |
| 7215654606 | In the Neolithic era they introduced | agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals | 46 | |
| 7215656823 | Another word for agriculture | agrarian | 47 | |
| 7215657836 | Writing doesn't begin until around | 6,000 years ago | 48 | |
| 7215658313 | Because they didn't have writing, they relied on | archaeology | 49 | |
| 7215659901 | Paleolithic means | old stone age | 50 | |
| 7215660690 | The first migrations of humans came from | Africa | 51 | |
| 7215662302 | Human migrated to every part of the planet except | Antartica | 52 | |
| 7215667380 | Around 30,000 years ago, people migrated from Asia across a ____________ where the __________is today. | land bridge; Bering Strait | 53 | |
| 7215670424 | Around 13,000 years ago, a descendent people called the __________ emerged in North America | Clovis Culture | 54 | |
| 7215671333 | The Clovis people used a distinctive projectile point called the | Clovis point | 55 | |
| 7215674441 | It is thought that they may have hunted _____________ out of existence | large animals (came in 1500s by Spanish) | 56 | |
| 7215675671 | Pacific migration was done by | canoe | 57 | |
| 7215676421 | Paleolithic societies were | small | 58 | |
| 7215676878 | first human societies were | nomadic and mobile | 59 | |
| 7215679467 | In the Paleolithic societies, success in hunting defined | masculinity | 60 | |
| 7215680745 | Life expectancy in the paleolithic was very | low (35 years on average) | 61 | |
| 7215683669 | In the first human societies, murdering was | more common | 62 | |
| 7215684726 | ___________ was a common belief—rocks, trees, animals, mountains had spirits or souls | animism | 63 | |
| 7215688655 | In the Paleolithic era, there was an existence of ________ (shows interest in fertility, life and death) | Venus figurines | 64 | |
| 7215690520 | Dogs were first domesticated because of discovery of | cemeteries for dogs | 65 | |
| 7215692476 | _____________ led to more people, more settlements, animal-borne diseases, horse drawn chariots, and more | Neolithic Age | 66 | |
| 7215693344 | First to develop agriculture was the | Fertile Crescent (middle east) | 67 | |
| 7215695066 | In different places, different ______ developed | crops | 68 | |
| 7215698189 | people had more tooth decay, shorter lives, new diseases like smallpox, flu, reductions in diversity of plant life, transformed the natural environment, Stratification of human activity, and perhaps in the long run a lower status for women | results of intense agriculture | 69 | |
| 7215827717 | The Clovis people are named after | Clovis, New Mexico | 70 | |
| 7215834875 | According to the Gregorian calendar, would the year 1800 be a leap year? | no | 71 | |
| 7215839434 | According to the Gregorian calendar, would the year 800 be a leap year? | yes | 72 | |
| 7215842161 | According to the Gregorian calendar, would the year 3600 be a leap year? | yes | 73 | |
| 7215854489 | The calendar of Dionysius still used the | Roman leap year system | 74 | |
| 7215856920 | What holiday was majorly affected by the roman calendar | Easter | 75 | |
| 7215862693 | Why did the early king of Rome add two more months to the calendar? | more taxes | 76 | |
| 7215866498 | Who could've influenced the naming of days | ancient jews | 77 | |
| 7215879320 | in South America they grew | potatoes | 78 | |
| 7215879321 | In north america they grew | maize | 79 | |
| 7215880377 | In mesopotamia they grew | wheat | 80 |
