any of the modern or extinct bipedal primates of the family Hominidae
What is hominid?
100
An ancient region of southwest Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in modern-day Iraq
What is Mesopotamia?
100
the alluvial deposit at the mouth of a river
What is a delta?
100
a form of government with a monarch at the head
What is monarchy?
100
to ban something
What is veto?
200
a member of a people or tribe that has no permanent abode but moves about from place to place, usually seasonally and often following a traditional route or circuit according to the state of the pasturage or food supply
What is nomad?
200
a line of hereditary rulers of a country
What is a dynasty?
200
a ruler of ancient Egypt
What is a pharaoh?
200
a large, distinguishable part of a continent
What is a subcontinent?
200
a home in the country
What is villa?
300
a period characterized by the use of bronze, proto-writing, and other early features of urban civilization
What is the Bronze Age?
300
a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state
What is a city state?
300
to embalm and dry as or as if a mummy
What is mummifaction?
300
an ancient Chinese philosophical concept that says that the gods would only let rulers rule as long as they were good rulers
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
300
the site of chariot races in ancient Rome
What is circuses?
400
the cultural period of the Stone Age beginning with the earliest chipped stone tools that was about 2.4 million years ago
What is the Paleolithic Era?
400
a form of temple common to the Sumerians, Babylonians and Assyrians of ancient Mesopotamia
What is a ziggurat?
400
a material prepared in ancient Egypt from the pithy stem of a water plant, used in sheets throughout the ancient Mediterranean world for writing or painting on and also for making rope, sandals, and boats
What is a papyrus?
400
a loosely compacted yellowish-gray deposit of windblown sediment of which extensive deposits
What is loess?
400
a political structure
What is a constitution?
500
a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand
What is an artisan?
500
a system of writing first developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia
What is cuneiform?
500
a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives
What is a bureaucracy?
500
an Indian king or prince
What is a raja?
500
a period of peace in the Roman Empire lasting from the beginning of Augustus's reign until the death of Marcus Aurelius (27 BC-AD 180)