Terminology
A study of the past
What is history?
Where this civilization was located.
What is India? or What is Pakistan and India?
The name of the indigenous people of Australia. (original inhabitants of the continent)
What are the Aboriginal people?
This empire was located in western Africa near the Niger River.
What is Mali or the Empire of Ghana?
A necklace was filled with this substance to keep away lice while traveling in the desert.
What is mercury?
What is a civilization?
An object remaining from a time period.
What is an artifact?
This wooden weapon was used to hunt bigger animals like kangaroos.
What is a boomerang?
This empire was made wealthy from mining these two things.
What is iron and gold?
Who spilled the sand last week and will be vacuuming today?
David
Food, shelter and clothing
What are basic needs?
A symbol or stamp used to confirm or certify that a letter or item is authentic.
What is a seal?
An musical instrument made out of hollowed out trees.
What is a didgeridoo?
This mineral was very valuable and was sometimes used as money as it was about as valuable as gold.
What is salt?
An optical illusion caused by hot air near the surface bending light from the sky.
What is a mirage?
A scientist who dig up everyday objects and treasures.
What is an archeologist?
True or False: The Indus Valley cities were well designed and had a well organized government and standard of living.
True
An order of animals where the babies are carried in a pouch.
What is a marsupial?
The largest city in the Mali Empire and considered the epicenter of education and learning.
What is Timbuktu?
The wise men stopped and had dinner with this person on the way to see the new king.
Who is King Herod?
The order that events took place.
What is a timeline?
True or False: We don't know why the Indus Valley civilization disappeared.
True
An ancient form of art painting that the Aboriginal people used to decorate. We did this in class.
What is dot art?
This Mali emperor took a lavish trip from Timbuktu to Mecca in 1324. He brought 60,000 people and 80 camels of gold.
Who is Mansa Musa?
Name one of the civilizations we will study next semester?
What is Japanese, Vikings or Incas civilizations?