Early Humans
The people who moved around from place to place instead of living in one settled location.
What are nomads?
The two rivers that formed the "cradle of civilization."
What are the Euphrates and the Tigris Rivers?
What is a mummy?
What is democracy?
The mountain range that lies to the north of India.
What is the Himalaya Mountains?
The art that archaeologists have found that tells us about early humans' lives.
What are cave paintings/drawings?
A large building with a temple at the top.
What is a ziggurat?
What is the delta?
The sea that holds most of the Greek islands.
What is the Aegean Sea?
The feature of homes in the Indus Valley Civilization that kept their streets clean and free of sewage/waste.
What is indoor plumbing?
The period of time when the Earth became very cold and difficult to survive on.
What is the Ice Age?
The hero of a famous epic from Mesopotamia.
Who is Gilgamesh?
The name of the northern area of Egypt.
What is Lower Egypt?
The Roman name for the Greek god, Ares (god of war).
What is Mars?
The religion that was started by a man known as Siddhartha Gautama.
What is Buddhism?
The period of time when people began farming instead of only hunting and gathering.
What is the Agricultural Revolution/Neolithic Age?
The writing created by Sumerians; used first for tracking business transactions.
What is cuneiform?
The name of ancient Egyptian writing.
What is hieroglyphics?
Who is Augustus (Octavian)?
What is the Mauryan Empire?
The material that people started using instead of stone and copper. It is made of copper and tin.
What is bronze?
Ur, Uruk, Eridu
Who is Re?
The place you could go to watch chariot races in ancient Rome.
What is the Circus Maximus?
The soul being reborn into a new person after death.
What is reincarnation?