Vocabulary
Migration
Ancient Civilizations
Greece & Rome
Regions
100
A scientist who studies human history by digging up human remains and artifacts.
Archeologist
100
Country north of modern day Greece, home to Alexander the Great and his Father King Phillip the II.
What is Macedonia
100
Mesoamerican civilization known as "the mother civilization" in this region.
What is Olmec
100
A militaristic city-state governed by mostly women.
What is Sparta
100
Region in crescent moon shape, spanning from north Africa into Turkey used by early civilizations for farming and settlement.
What is the fertile crescent
200
A scientist interested in studying everything from the traditions of a tribe on a remote island to the culture of an urban community and everything in between.
Anthropologist
200
Age in history described by the Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic periods
What is the Stone Age
200
Ancient seafaring civilization that inhabited modern day Crete. Precursors to the Mycenaean & Greek civilizations.
What is the Minoans
200
A Greek philosopher who had significant influence on the western world and teacher to Plato and Aristotle.
Who is Socrates
300
To be trained to live or work for humans, i.e. pets and farm animals.
Domestication
300
date: about 12,000 years ago
What is 10000BC
300
Ancient civilization united under King Menes
What is Ancient Egyptians
300
1st Roman emperor, also known as Octavian
Who was Augustus
300
Combined land mass of Europe & Asia
What is Eurasia
400
The determination of the age or date of organic matter from the relative proportions of the carbon isotopes carbon-12 and carbon-14 that it contains.
What is carbon dating
400
Name of Eastern Europe after the fall of Rome.
What is Byzantine Empire
400
Ancient civilizations who lived in the region of Mesopotamia as early as 5000BC
What is Sumerians
400
Macedonian ruler who went on to defeat the Persians and spread Greek ideas all the way to the Indus Valley.
Who is Alexander the Great
400
Two rivers that surround Mesopotamia
What is Tigris & Euphrates Rivers
500
Relating to or denoting a family of languages that includes Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic and certain ancient languages such as Phoenician and Akkadian, constituting the main subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic family.
What is Semitic
500
Island south of Greece home to Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations.
What is Crete
500
Chinese dynasty responsible for burning of the books under their emperor Shi Huangdi
What is the Qin Dynasty
500
Frank king credited for uniting Western Europe after the fall of Rome.
Who was Charlemagne
500
Modern day northern India & southern Pakistan
What is the Indus Valley
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