Handmade objects representative of a earlier time that are usually found during excavations.
What is an artifact?
100
A belief in (1) one god, and, (2) more than one god.
What is (1) monotheism, and, (2) polytheism.
100
The river or rivers which are associated with the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
100
The use of science for the purposes of creating and inventing useful things and solving problems.
What is technology?
100
A state that has its own government and consists of a city and the territories around it.
What is a city-state?
Greeks-----> Athens was the largest city.
Romans------> Rome was the main city.
200
People who travel from place to place without settling down golive in one place only.
What is nomads?
200
A person who studies different aspects of humankind through their origins and biological characteristics.
What is an anthropologist?
200
The river which was essential for maintaining the great civilization of Egypt.
What is the Nile River. (Also the longest river in the world).
200
A system by which a state or community is ruled.
What is a government?
200
A form of government practiced by both the Greeks and Romans in which the population is allowed to vote on decisions through elected representatives.
What is democracy?
300
Documents which were created or recorded after a specific time period or event.
What are secondary sources?
300
A method which was used by early Egyptians to bury their dead that required the dehydration of the bodies.
What is mummification?
300
A civilization that shared its name with the river responsible for its development; it was known for its thriving cities and urban system.
What is the Indus Valley civilization (and river)?
300
The manner in which a person uses words to express ideas and opinions.
What is writing?
300
Famous Greek philosopher and teacher who believed people learned about things through questioning. Was also the teacher of another famous Greek philosopher known as Plato.
Who was Socrates?
400
The spread of ideas, customs and technologies from one culture to another.
What is cultural diffusion?
400
A well-preserved law code belonging to ancient Mesopotamia (1754).
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
400
Location of the ancient civilization that was closely associated with the Huang He (Yellow) river.
What is China.
400
An organized system of beliefs, ceremonies, and rules that are used for worshipping god(s).
What is religion.
400
Historic period of time following the death of Alexander the Great during which Greek culture and ideas were spread throughout the Mediterranean.
What is Hellenistic?
500
An ancient area that contains rich soil and essential rivers which stretch into an arc from the Nile, to the Tigris and Euphrates.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
500
An organizational hierarchy used in ancient times by India's culture in order to create a social division among certain groups of people.
What is the Caste System?
500
The four ancient civilizations that were known as River Valley civilizations.
What are Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, and China.
500
A term that describes the characteristics of a group of people, including language, foods, religion, and social habits.
What is culture?
500
Roman's legal code; the foundational for all of their laws.