Vocabulary
To adapt wild plants or animals and breed them for human use.
What is Domesticate.
What was the Stone Age?
What is the period of time that began with the first use of stone tools.
What was the first of the three Kingdom periods?
What is an Old Kingdom.
The Kingdom of Nubia was located just south of what major civilization?
What is Egypt.
What major body of water was located along the coast of Aksum?
What is Red Sea.
A family of rulers who's right to rule is hereditary.
What is a Dynasty.
After early people began domesticating plants and animals, they were able to...........
What is: settle in one place.
What major development occurred near the beginning of the Ancient Egyptian civilization that helped the Egyptians to make records and run the government?
What is a hieroglyphics.
What resources helped Nubia to become wealthy and powerful?
What is iron and gold.
Aksum became a center of what religion?
What is Christianity.
Society that has cities, a central government, and social classes and that usually has writing, art, and architecture.
What is a Civilization.
True or False: About 2,000 years ago, a group of people who spoke Bantu languages began one of the largest migrations that has ever taken place.
True.
Who was the first Pharaoh of the Ancient Egypt?
What is Menes.
The fighters of Nubia were famous for using what type of weapon?
What is a bow and arrow.
What type of structure was Aksum famous for constructing?
What is a stelae, tall towers.
Group of people who share the same ancestors, culture, language, or religion.
What is Ethnic Group.
Name two Bantu languages spoken in Central and Southern Africa.
What is Swahili, Zulu.
What Greek conqueror captured Egypt in 332 B.C.?
What is Alexander the Great.
What was the most important social class after the rulers?
What is a priests.
What made Aksum the most advanced civilizations of Ancient Africa?
What is:1)They developed their own written language, 2)They used irrigation and terraced farming, 3) They minted their own coins.
A huge, stone slab inscribed with hieroglyphics.
What is Rosetta Stone.
How many years ago Sahara was not a desert?
What is 10,000 years ago.
What was the first pyramid built by the Ancient Egyptian?
What is Djoser.
What was the first capital city of Nubia?
What is Napata.
What leader ruled Aksum when it reached its peak around 350CE?
What is King Ezana.