Neolithic Revolution
This is an object made by humans.
What is an artifact?
A region of the Middle East stretching in a large, crescent-shaped curve from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea. It has good conditions for growing crops.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
This is term used for a dead body preserved by a special process.
This is Judaism's most sacred text.
What is the Torah?
A famous leader of ancient Athens who helped the city grow strong and supported democracy.
Who was Pericles?
These were people who lived by killing same game and collecting plants.
Who are the hunter-gatherers?
This is the term for when canals built to bring water from the rivers to the fields helped with crops.
What is irrigation?
This term describes a person who is skilled at making things by hand.
What is an artisan?
This is the treatment of people as property.
What is slavery?
This was the large temple built in Athens to honor the goddess Athena.
What is the Parthenon?
This scientist was one of the world’s most famous archaeologists, dedicated her life to studying early humans.
Who is Mary Leakey?
In Ancient Egypt this is the term used for a series of rulers from the same family.
What is a dynasty?
This is the term for a drawing or symbol that represents a word or a sound.
What are hieroglyphics?
The escape of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt to freedom is known as this.
What is the Exodus?
This term is for something important a person leaves behind that is remembered later.
What is a legacy?
This are scientists who study artifacts of language, customs, habits, culture.
What is an anthropologist?
This is the term for the rocky areas in a river that make travel difficult.
What is a cataract?
This term describes a grouping of people based on common characteristics.
What is a social pyramid?
This person was given the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai.
Who is Moses?
This is the word used for people working together and supporting each other
What is unity?
Scholars who study the past are known as these
What is a historian?
This is the word used to describe believing in more than one god.
What is polytheism?
Who was Ra?
Judaism is the belief in one god which is known as this term.
What is monotheism?
An important city-state in ancient Greece known for democracy, learning, and culture.
What is Athens?