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Gr 7 History Ch 1
Grade 7 History Ch 1 Review
Term | Definition |
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Adam | the very first man; his name means "man" |
Eve | the first woman; her name means "mother of all" |
Cain | the first murderer; God doomed him to live as a wanderer because of his sin |
Lamech | a descendant of Cain; he bragged about the murders he had committed |
Seth | a son of Adam and Eve whose descendants were at least aware of their sins |
Noah | the man who obeyed God, build the ark, and with his family escaped God's judgment of the world |
Shem, Ham, and Japheth | Noah's three sons who repopulated the world after the Flood |
Nimrod | a mighty hunter who encouraged the people to build the Tower of Babel |
Shinar | the plain where Noah's family and his descendants settled |
Babel | the city in Shinar where the tower was built |
first human sin | Adam and Eve disobeyed God's command; perfect equality ended, man was removed from the garden, all men would now sin and die |
the Flood | God's punishment for the height of evil man had reached; destroyed the whole earth except Noah and his family |
the Tower of Babel | God confused man's language causing men to disperse |
Genesis | the first book of the Bible; means "beginning" |
evolution | the idea that man was not created directly by God but instead "evolved" from the animals |
humanism | putting man in place of or above God |
culture | the way of life a group of people |
capital punishment | the death penalty |
nation | a group of people who think of themselves as one and act in history as a unit |