Early Humans
A social scientist who studies the past by examining objects that people have left behind.
What is an archeologist?
The longest river in the world, flowing through eastern Africa to a delta to northeastern Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
A large landmass that is smaller than a continent.
What is a subcontinent?
The average weather conditions at a particular place.
What is climate?
The hill above a Greek city, on which temples were built.
What is an acropolis?
An object made or used by people in the past.
A river in southwestern Asia that flows from the Lebanon Mountains, south through the Sea of Galilee, into the Dead Sea.
What is the Jordan River?
A flat area of land that is elevated, or raised, above the land around it.
What is a plateau?
One of the first Chinese dynasties, ruled from 1700 to 1122 BCE.
What is the Shang Dynasty?
Who was Socrates?
The land between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea that has rich soil for growing crops.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
What is a pharaoh?
A strong wind that brings heavy rain to southern Asia in the summer.
What is a monsoon?
The location where ruins were found from the Shang Dynasty which was China's first civilization.
What is Anyang?
Who is Zeus?
An expert who studies and creates maps of Earth's natural and human-made features.
What is a geographer?
A symbol used in the system of writing developed around 3000 BCE.
What is a hieroglyph?
The idea that all existing things in reality come from one original source.
What is monism?
The lowest rank of social classes in Shang China.
What are slaves?
Alexander the Great founded this city.
What is Alexandria?
A time period that occured prior to written history.
Judaism's most sacred text, consisting of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible.
What is the Torah?
The name given to the man who founded Buddhism.
Who is Buddha?
The highest ranking social class of Shang China.
What is the royal family?
This tutor taught Alexander the Great.
Who was Aristotle?