History
This person is a historian who digs objects out of the ground and learns from them.
What is an archaeologist.
Egyptians lived on this river.
What is the Nile River.
This ruler wanted his people to live in harmony and be governed with rules that were fair.
Who is Hammurabi.
The Chinese first began to use this for the first time during the Shang Dynasty.
What is writing.
Phoenicians made their purple dye from this.
What are snails.
Mummies were first made in which kingdom in ancient Egypt?
What is the Old Kingdom.
This Egyptian writing system used pictures which at first were carved into stone.
What is hieroglyphics.
This is an object made by a human being that an archaeologist might find.
What is an artifact.
The people of India lived along this river.
What is the Indus River.
People in this civilization knew about the sun, planets, stars, and constellations, and called the time it took for the earth to go around the sun "one year."
Who are the Babylonians.
A family who keeps control of a country for many, many years.
What is a dynasty.
The Phoenicians lived here.
What is Canaan.
This is the name of the valley where King Tut is buried.
What is the Valley of the Kings.
Hieroglyphics were later written on this material, which was much lighter than stone.
What is papyrus.
This is a large piece of land with many countries on it.
What is a continent.
Assyrians and Babylonians lived on the Tigris and what river?
What is the Euphrates.
These jars were used during mummification and held the stomach, lungs, liver, and intestines.
What are canopic jars.
Huang Di's wife discovered this worm which was used to make silk.
What is the silkworm.
The Phoenicians invented this special way of shaping hot glass.
What is glass blowing.
The man who led the Israelites back out of Egypt.
Who is Moses.
Chinese writing is made up of these pictures that look exactly like the words they stand for.
What is pictograms.
These people wandered from place to place looking for food and sleeping in tents or caves.
What is a nomad.
The people of China first lived between two rivers--the Yangtze and what other river?
What is the Yellow River.
Anansi the Spider is a favorite character with storytellers on this continent.
What is Africa.
During the Shang Dynasty, the Chinese people began to use this for weapons, wheels, and farming tools.
Purple was called the color of kings because of this.
It was very expensive.
Queen Hatshepsut accomplished this thing that no other woman in Egypt had done before.
What is become pharaoh of Egypt.
This type of writing was done by the Sumerians and was carved into clay.
What is cuneiform.
The Indus River Valley Civilization in India is also called by this name.
What is the Harappan Civilization.
Ancient people always wanted to live near rivers because there was plenty of water to drink and they could use it to water what?
What is their crops.
This is one of the oldest fairy tales in the world.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh.
The history of ancient Egypt is divided up into these three periods or kingdoms.
What is the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms.