SOCIAL STUDIES
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a sacred text of Buddhism

What is the Tripitaka? 

100
Ancient Egyptians made paper out of this ...
What is papyrus
100
A person who wanders from place to place
nomad
100
A scientist who digs and studies artifacts
What is archaeologist
100
what is a scribe?
professional writer
200
The ____ river flowed backwards through Egypt
What is Nile
200
The earliest/first monothestic religion in the area of Jeruslaem/Israel.
What is Judaism
200
The geography of Greece and Italy
What is peninsula
200

a temple in Athens built to honor the goddess Athena is called the _______.

What is the Parthenon

200
temples in Mesopotamia
What is ziggurats
300

a Chinese product made from strands produced by worms

What is silk? 

300
Government ruled by kings and queens.
What is Monarchy
300

 the form of government in ancient Rome

representative democracy

300
System of government ruled by wealthy people
What is oligarchy
300
Egyptian God of the Underworld
Osiris
400

the land of Mesopotamia 

What is the fertile crescent?

400

name of the continents conquered by Alexander the Great

What are Asia, Africa, and Europe? 

400

Name 4 main religions studied this year.

Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity 

400
Where majority of civilizations start/form
river valley
400

the oldest known written epic

What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?

500
person who received God's law called the Ten Commandments

Who was Moses?

500

tombs for the burial of Egyptian pharaohs

What is a pyramid? 

500
A well known philosopher of Ancient Greece
Who is Socrates, Plato, or Aristotle
500
Who was Egypt's first female pharaoh?
Who was Hatshepsut
500
ditches, levees, canals
type of irrigation system