Vocabulary I
Vocabulary II
Egypt
Classical
Africa
100
government by divine authority
What is theocracy?
100
Greek word for city state
What is polis?
100
this is the longest river in the world
What is the Nile?
100
this is a type of performance that ends sadly
What are tragedies?
100
this is the largest desert
What is the Sahara?
200
a belief in many gods
What is polytheistic?
200
teaching method used by Socrates; question answer method
What is Socratic Method?
200
what are the three time frames in ancient Egypt?
What are old, middle, and new kingdom?
200
this is a type of performance that is funny and makes fun of politicians in ancient Greek society
What is comedy?
200
this is a broad grassland that has small trees and shrubs
What is a savannah?
300
simplified version of hieroglyphics
What is hieratic script?
300
ruler of arab tribe
What is sheikh?
300
these are gorse-drawn chariots
What are hyksos?
300
this is where the Greek gods lived
What is Mt. Olympus?
300
society in which descent is traced through the mother
What is matrilineal?
400
title of Egyptian monarchs
What is pharaoh?
400
mixed African-Arabian culture along the coastal area of East Africa
What is Swahili?
400
this is a process of slowly drying a dead body
What is mummification?
400
in 776 BCE these athletic events took place in Greece
What are the Olympics?
400
Mansa Musa is most associated with which African kingdom?
What is Mali?
500
wedge shaped writing
What is cuneiform?
500
rule of many
What is democracy
500
this is the earliest form of Egyptian writing
What is hieroglyphics?
500
this was the form of government used in ancient Greece that allowed people to to directly participate in government
What is direct democracy?
500
Christianity prevailed in this African country
What is Ethiopia?
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