Mesopotamia
Ancient Egypt
Early Humans
Vocabulary
Hodge Podge
100
The study of Earth and how people use it.
What is geography?
100
This is the reason ancient Egyptians preserved the bodies of their dead.
What is the afterlife?
100
The time before written history.
What is Prehistoric?
100
The way people think, live, believe, and behave.
What is culture?
100
This type of map shows features of the earth such as deserts, mountains, and rivers.
What is a physical map?
200
Early civizations developed where there was an adequate supply of this.
What is water.
200
Teh seasonal overflow of the Nile River caused the land of Egypt to be
What is rich and fertile?
200
The earliest know human to walk the earth.
What is AA?
200
The pattern of weather in a place over a long period of time.
What is climate?
200
A map that shows the boundaries of a state or country.
What is a political map?
300
Ancient Sumerian system of canals dug to shape the path of water.
What is irrigation?
300
This group is at the bottom of the Ancient Egyptian society pyramid.
What is peasants?
300
Neolithic dommunitiey jobs helped them gain these.
What are specialized skills?
300
Scientist who study the past by examingin artifacts left behind by past cultures
What is arachaeologists?
300
This is where the organs of dead pharoahs were placed.
What are canopic jars?
400
Temple builty by Mesopotamians to workship their gods.
What is a ziggurat?
400
Egyptians regarded their pharoahs as these.
What are gods?
400
This discovery began the Neolithic Age.
What is agriculture?
400
The belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
400
Embalmers in Ancient Egypt rubbed this on the bodies and left it for 40 days.
What is salt (natron)?
500
An early city that had it's own government and laws.
What is a city-state?
500
Egyptian pharoahs called their tombs this.
What is pyramid?
500
The rich strip of land between the Tigirs and Euphrates river is referred to as this.
What is Fertile Crescent?
500
Social scientists who create maps.
What is cartogropher?
500
The next in line under the pharoah?
What is vizer?
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