this sometimes tells a story that explains people's beliefs
What is a myth?
100
what scientists studied to learn about the iceman's life
What are his tools, body, and clothing?
100
this led to the farming communities to develop into cities
What is a dependable water source?
100
the Nile River helped Egyptian civilization flourish by
What are supplying fertile soil, papyrus, clay for building and transportation?
200
written or recorded events of a people
What is history?
200
powerful Egyptian ruler
What is a pharaoh?
200
farming led to surplus food which led to
What is population growth?
200
why Hammurabi's code was significant
What is because it was the first written law?
200
Mesopotamia means _______________
What is "land between the rivers"?
300
many lands ruled by one person is an
What is an empire?
300
a waterfall or rush of water in a river
What is a cataract?
300
the New Stone Age and Old Stone Age have this in common
What are using fire and tools?
300
how ancient Egyptians demonstrated their belief in afterlife
What is they mummified their dead?
300
writing first developed in
What is Mesopotamia?
400
religious belief of most of the ancient civilizations
What is polytheism?
400
__________ food led to population increase
What is surplus?
400
characteristics of the New Stone Age
What are settling in one place, farming, and domesticating animals?
400
Egyptian peasants lives were affected by
What is the planting seasons?
400
the seven continents and five oceans
What are North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, Antarctica, Arctic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, and the Southern Ocean.
500
_____________ were important officials in Mesopotamia since very few people could write
What is scribe?
500
Nubians traveled in large __________________ over land since they could not navigate the Nile River
What are caravans?
500
characteristics of the Old Stone Age
What are moving from place to place and hunting animals and gathering food
500
caused civilizations to developed in the Fertile Crescent and ancient Egypt
What is rich farmland?
500
reasons why the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers were called rivers of life and death
What is floods destroyed crops and buildings and killed animals and people and rivers supplied fish, clay for building, reeds for making boats and fertile soil?