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Man-made objects that are of historical interest.
What are artifacts?
The type of social, economic, military, political, and cultural system that structured ancient European society.
What is feudalism?
This system shows how Egyptian Society is organized from highest to lowest.
What is a social pyramid?
The set principles of conduct practiced by the followers of all major religions.
What is The Golden Rule?
This Greek city-state was devoted to war.
What is Sparta?
Belonging to the very distant past and no longer in existence.
What is ancient?
This ancient civilization developed a writing system called hieroglyphics which were written on paper made with papyrus.
What is Egypt?
A massive structure that served as a tomb for the Egyptian Pharaoh and high officials.
What is a pyramid?
The three monotheistic religions we studied that are practiced by about half of the world’s population.
What are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?
A time in history when the development of agriculture and the domestication of animals led to the settlement of farming villages.
What is the Neolithic Age?
The supply of water to land or crops by artificial means.
What is irrigation?
This ancient civilization began when people transitioned from hunter-gatherer to farming and domesticating animals, allowing them to live in permanent settlements.
What is the Neolithic Era?
The largest social class in Ancient Egypt was made up of farmers and this group of individuals.
What are slaves?
The holy book of Judaism which describes the creation of the world, the history of ancient Israel, the Ten Commandments, and contains the Psalms and the prophetic books.
What is the Torah?
During the Paleolithic Period, humans made tools made from this material.
What is stone?
A sudden, great change or turning point in history.
What is a revolution?
The Fertile Crescent, which includes Mesopotamia was home to the earliest known human civilizations who settled between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
The process of preserving a dead body used by ancient Egyptians to prepare the bodies of the Pharaohs for the afterlife.
What is mummification?
In ancient Egypt, they were worshipped as kings and living gods.
Who are the pharoahs?
The period in European history from the collapse of the Roman Empire in the 5th century CE to the period of the Renaissance beginning in the 13the century CE.
What are the Middle Ages?
A large group of people with their own languages and way of life.
What is a civilization?
The ancient Greek city-state of Athens developed this type of government system.
What is a democracy?
This body of water provided a source of water for irrigation, transportation, and fertile soil for agriculture.
What is the Nile River?
A series of holy wars where the Christians of Europe fought to retake control of Jerusalem and the Holy Land from the Muslims.
What were the crusades?
The time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history in 3000 BCE to the early Middle Ages in 500 CE.
What is ancient history?