Early Humans
Humans who hunted animals and gathered plants for food
What are hunters and gatherers?
The river that gave life to Ancient Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
Farming crops and raising food.
What is agriculture?
The writing system invented by the Sumerians.
What is cuneiform?
The river valley civilization located in modern India and Pakistan.
What is the Indus Valley Civilization?
The era when stone tools were the most advanced technology
What is the Stone Age?
The ruler of Egypt believed to be a god-king.
What is a pharaoh?
A community with extra food beyond what it needs.
What is a surplus of food?
Independent cities with their own governments.
What are city-states?
The tallest mountains in the world.
What are the Himalaya Mountains?
Giant sheets of ice formed during ice ages
What are glaciers?
Carefully preserved dead bodies made in Egypt.
What are mummies?
The area where many early civilizations formed because the land was fertile.
What is the FertileCrescent?
A cylinder-shaped object rolled on clay to stamp writing.
What is a seal?
A public place used for bathing.
What is a bath house?
Paintings early humans created in caves
What are cave paintings
The picture writing system used by Egyptians.
What are hieroglyphs?
Controlling river water to help crops grow.
What is irrigation?
Religion, stories, art, and customs shared by a people.
What is culture?
The first Indus Valley city discovered.
What is Harappa?
The continent where the first modern humans lived
What is Africa?
Giant triangular tombs built for rulers.
What are pyramids?
An organized society with surplus food and division of labor.
What is a civilization?
The invention that allowed people to record history.
What is writing?
A large section of a continent separated by mountains.
What is a subcontinent?