Anthropology
Field within Anthropology that is concerned with digging up old object left behind from ancient civilizations.
What is Archeology?
This word means to move around a lot, not staying in one place for very long, with temporary shelters and hunting and gathering.
What is Nomadic?
What Ancient Egyptians called their king or ruler.
What is a Pharaoh?
This "P" word describes land that is surrounded by water on 3 sides.
What is a Peninsula?
This religious practice was very important to the Mayans and Aztecs.
What is Sacrifice?
Field within Anthropology that looks at the evolution, or change over time, of humans.
What is Physical Anthropology?
This word means to stay in one place for long periods of time, typically with permanent shelters and farming.
What is Sedentary?
Name of the river that flows through Egypt, flooded regularly, and brought fertile soil for farming.
What is the Nile River?
This Greek god was thought to be the god of the sky, making him king of the Greek gods.
Who is Zeus?
Name of the agricultural technique the Mayans used to clear land.
What is slash-and-burn agriculture?
Field within Anthropology that studies language in societies, verbal and nonverbal.
What is Linguistic Anthropology?
This artifact Anthropologists used to study early humans is a visual of what life was like for them, typically involving things that were important (hunting, weapons, herds of animals, etc.)
These large structure were thought to be tombs or burial places for their dead.
What are pyramids?
This Greek god was thought to be the god of the underworld, also the main bad guy in the Disney movie, Hercules.
Who is Hades?
This is the name of the large rainforest in South America, located close to where the Incan Empire was located.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
Field within Anthropology that studies the culture of different societies and compares them to one another.
Name given to the first groups or tribes of people living in America before Europeans.
What is Native American?
Name of the writing style that Egyptians used that contained pictures to represent words.
What are hieroglyphs/hieroglyphics?
This Greek city-state was friendly, liked to trade, and focused on education.
What is Athens?
What is an eagle on a cactus killing a snake?
The word "Anthropology" means this.
The is the study of humans/man?
This time period, meaning "New Stone Age", arrived when early humans began farming instead of hunting and gathering.
What is the Neolithic Era?
This heavy object had three languages on it, which later helped Linguistic Anthropologists translate the Egyptian language.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
This Greek city-state was harsh, and focused on military power and discipline.
What is Sparta?
This group of people traveled from Europe and wiped out the Mayans and Aztecs, and is the name of the language currently spoken in the region.
Who are the Spanish?