Prehistory
The process of changing plants and animals to make them more useful to humans.
Domestication
A belief in many gods.
Polytheism
Egyptians waited for the yearly floods to deposit a layer of this on the farmlands
Silt
The academic name for a Greek city-state
Polis
Philip II lost this in battle uniting Greece.
His eyeball
before agriculture, people survived by doing this (two words).
Hunting and Gathering
A self-governing city with its own unique identity
City State
A set of instructions for how to successfully pass through the many trials of the underworld.
Book of the Dead
These scholars love knowledge.
Philosophers
A city that perfectly mixed Greek and Egyptian culture, becoming the largest, richest, most significant city of the Hellenistic Era.
Alexandria
The study of the past based on evidence that has been left behind
Archaeology
This Babylonian King created the oldest known set of written laws (an eye for an eye)
Hammurabi
The kingdom (era) when Egyptians built the pyramids.
The Old Kingdom
This blind poet wrote the Iliad and Odyssey.
Homer
How did Alexander die?
A fever
Archaeological objects that were once alive
Fossils
The oldest known story is written about this legendary Mesopotamian king.
Gilgamesh
This archaeological object allowed historians to finally read ancient hieroglyphics.
The Rosetta Stone
The type of government Sparta had; featuring two kings and a council of elders who ruled.
Oligarchy
The name of the island city that Alexander the Great turned into a peninsula to attack with his foot soldiers.
Tyre
The scientific name for the "Old Stone Age."
Paleolithic
Translated from Greek, Mesopotamia means this.
Between the Rivers
This Egyptian Queen was a Regent turned Pharaoh.
Hatshepsut
Sparta received gold from this former enemy in order to build a navy and win the Peloponnesian War.
The Persian Empire
The name of the final Persian King. He lost to Alexander's forces in 331 BC.
Darius III