This subject is the study of the written past
History
Mesopotamia means, "the land between the rivers," and refers to the lands between and around these two rivers
Tigris and Euphrates
The Hittites were a member of this group, which has relatives all over Europe and India.
The Indo-Europeans
A king of ancient Egypt holds this title.
Pharaoh
The Paleolithic Period
This family of subjects contains the Arts, Languages, Law, Philosophy, as well as History.
The Humanities
Wars between Sumerian city states were often fought over this
Farmland
This weapon served to bolster the Hittites power long before they developed ironworking in the 1500s.
The Chariot
This is the name of the ancient Egyptian pictographic writing system.
Hieroglyphics
This word, meaning "belief in many" is used to describe the majority of ancient religions, which focused on gods related to forces of nature.
Polytheistic
These studies, including Anthropology, Psychology, Political Science, and History focuses on trying to understand human society
The Social Sciences
This building would be a religious space for priests and scribes, containing hundreds of cuneiform tablets.
Ziggurat
This group developed the first alphabet
The Phoenicians
During the Old Kingdom, this group gained more power than the Pharaoh and rebelled.
The Nomes
The invention of this would change human life drastically, and is known as the Neolithic Revolution.
These objects were created or altered through human efforts, and are studied by Archaeologists.
Artifacts
This city founded the first empire in Mesopotamia
Akkad
This group of people would establish the kingdoms of Israel and Judah on the coast of the Mediterranean.
This is the region of Egypt closest to the Mediterranean Sea
Lower Egypt
The eight traits of this include complex cities, specialized jobs, complex institutions and written language
Civilization
This method for determining the age of artifacts measures the amount of carbon isotopes in the object
Carbon Dating
This king created the first written code of laws to govern the empire of Babylon.
King Hammurabi
This group would be defeated by the Medes, which opened the way for the Neo-Babylonian Empire to rise.
The Assyrian Empire
This Pharaoh attempted to change Egyptian religion into a system of monotheistic sun-worship
Akhenaten
This word describes the process of ideas being exchanged between different groups when they interact with each other
Cultural Diffusion