1: Pre-history is often referred to as the Stone Age because ________.
Humans lived in caves made of stone
The tools and weapons the people used were made of stone
This is time when Stonehenge was built
People communicated with one another by writing on stone
2: The Egyptians solved all of the following problems in order to use their lands except which one?
Drainage
Irrigation and water storage to keep the land green
Plow to harvest bigger fields
Travel over the cataracts in the Nile
23: Who was Leif Ericson?
A Germanic cheiftain
A Christian missionary
A Viking who landed in North America
King of the Vikings
24: Who were the serfs?
A class of nobles
The warriors that protected the manor
Villagers who farmed their own lands
Peasants who were bound to the land of which they worked
25: Who were the vassals?
Peasants who were bound to the land on which they worked
The rulers of the manors
The lords who were given great land in exchange for a promise to protect the king
A class of knights who had earned the Order of the Garter
26: Which order correctly describes the training of a knight?
Page, squire, knight, act of bravery
Page, squire, act of bravery, knight
Squire, page, act of bravery, knight
Squire, page, knight, act of bravery
2007-03-13 02:31:56 · 2 answers · asked by heather n 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
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2007-03-13 02:34:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
1. Stone age refers to stone tools. It is called either paleo-lithic or neo-lithic; lithos means stone in Greek.
2. The Egyptians were brilliant with agriculture and irrigation; navigation down the Nile was rougher
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataract_Nile
23. Lief Erickson was a Viking explorer who discovered Iceland and Greenland and probably traveled to eastern Canada.
24. A serf is a peasant who belongs to someone
Serfs were essentially slaves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serf
25. A vassal is someone who agrees to support someone in power in exchange for land
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vassals
26. It was page, then squire, then act of bravery in order to become a knight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight
2007-03-13 03:01:54 · answer #2 · answered by parrotjohn2001 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋