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This includes language, religion, traditions, and values
What is Culture
100
Someone who would study a mountain range, a forest, a desert, or an island.
What is a geologist?
100
This country is a peninsula and it gets most of the food from the water and they live on the coastal regions.
What is Greece?
100
A time period of ten years. For example, 1460-1470.
What is decade?
100
This is a name of a person often moves from place to place.
What is a nomad?
200
It means the same as B.C. but the initials are B.C.E.
What is before common era?
200
This man wrote The Illiad and The Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
200
In this society, poor boys learned how to sing and play musical instuments but were not educated any further.
What is the Athenian society?
200
This field of study compares different cultural groups.
What is anthropology?
200
An early technological advance that improved transportation.
What is the wheel?
300
On a map, this shows the meaning of the symbols.
What is a map key?
300
The Jews believe this is the most holy day of the year.
What is Yom Kippur?
300
The Yangzi River is the northern most boundary for this dynasty.
What is the Qin Dynasty?
300
The main purpose of this was to serve as temples to honor the gods.
What is a ziggurat?
300
The purpose of this was to establish laws and the penalties for breaking them.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
400
An area of land that has one side touching land and the rest of it touching water.
What is a peninsula?
400
In this society, they put items such as masks, statues, and jewelry in tombs because the dead enjoyed materials in their afterlife.
What is the Egyptian society?
400
Sparta had a society organized on this principal.
What is militarism?
400
A type of ancient community that has domeseticated animals, inventinos of new tools, and irrigation systems.
What is farming?
400
This person would search for ancient tools or buried fossils.
What is an archaeologist?
500
An example of this form of government is when citizens vote on laws.
What is direct democracy?
500
Sumerians use cuneiform to write these.
What are epics.
500
This major trade route starts in China and travels through the Himalayas through the Kushan Empire to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Silk Road?
500
Examples of these would be written sources, artifacts, and objects.
What is primary source?
500
A clay tablet, stylus, and scribes are all associated with this form of writing.
What is cuneiform?
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