Early Humans
bones and imprints of plant life
What are fossils?
A small community that acts as a country, like Ur
What is a city-state?
The capital of ancient and modern-day Israel
What is Jerusalem?
Another name for a city-state
What is polis?
What is Lines of Latitude or Meridians?
The period of time in which fire was discovered, but there was no domestication
What is the Paleolithic Age?
Belief in one god
The Torah and writings of prophets are in this book, but not the New Testament
What is the Hebrew Bible?
The top of the hill in Greek city-states
What is acropolis?
The intermediate direction between north and east
What is NE?
An archeologist digs for these items, which are manmade
What are artifacts?
Term for the tax paid to Akkad by the people they conquered
What is a tribute?
Jewish New Year
Rosh Hashana
The ancient Greeks' marketplace
What is agora?
The largest country in the Arabian peninsula
What is Saudi Arabia?
Something that explains, shows, or tells about a primary source, but it is not the original
What is secondary source?
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers?
Led the Exodus from Egypt
Who is Moses?
Winner of the Persian Wars
Who are the Greeks?
The name for the "continent" that includes Australia and New Zealand
What is Oceania?
The land bridge that people walked over from Asia to what is now Alaska during the Ice Ages
What is Beringia?
Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Chaldeans?
In addition to being called a temple, the Jews' place of worship
What is synagogue?
Winner of the Peloponnesian Wars
Who were the Spartans?
The country just north of the middle of Greece
What is North Macedonia?