Past
Part or imprint of something that once lived.
What is a fossil?
The time before writing.
What is prehistory?
Large arc of rich, or fertile farmland.
What is a Fertile Crescent?
Makes the Nile River unique.
What is it runs south to north?
Large landmass smaller than a continent.
What is a subcontinent?
Objects created and used by humans.
A relative who lived in the past.
What is an ancestor?
A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks.
What is silt?
A triangle shaped area of land made of soil deposited by a river.
What is a delta?
The most important language of ancient India.
What is sanskrit?
The study of the past based on what people left behind.
What is archeology?
A community of people who share a common culture.
What is a society?
The type of arrangement i which each worker specializes in a particular task or job.
What is a division of labor?
People of rich and powerful families.
What is a noble?
A state of perfect peace.
What is nirvana?
Treaties, letters, diaries, laws, court documents and royal commands are all.
What is a primary source?
The process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans.
What is domestication?
Land with different territories and peoples under a single rule.
What is an empire?
A path followed by a trader.
What is the trade routes?
The science of working with metals.
What is metallurgy?
An area with one or more features that make it different from surrounding areas.
What is a region?
Huge stones used as monuments.
What are Megaliths?
The division of a society by rank or class.
What is social hierarchy?
Imaginary creatures with the bodies of lions and heads of other animals or humans.
Numbers that we still use today.
What is Hindu-Arabic numerals?