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Early Humans
Mesopotamia
Greece& Rome
Egypt
Middle Ages
100
Archeologists study these to best learn about the human past.
What is an artifact?
100
The two rivers that surround Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
100
An area of land similar to greece and rome, almost completely surrounded by water.
What is a peninsula?
100
The belief in many gods
What is polytheism?
100
The type of government they had in the Middle Ages; kings and queens inherit the power to rule.
What is a Monarchy?
200
This caused the population of early humans to grow.
What is a surplus of food?
200
A system mesopotamia used to get water from the rivers to their fields.
What is irrigation?
200
A structure that the romans invented to carry water over long distances.
What is an aqueduct?
200
A life after death.
What is an afterlife?
200
The disease that wiped out 1/3 of Europes population, caused by rats traveling on ships.
What is the bubonic plague?
300
This describes a scientist who examines objects to learn more about the past.
What is an archeologist?
300
An organized list of laws and rules.
What is a code?
300
A great military leader who defeated the persian empire only to be killed by his own citizens.
Who is Alexander the Great?
300
Someone who rules for a child until the child is old enough to rule.
What is a regent?
300
The social institution that kept order during the Middle Ages.
What is The Roman Catholic Church?
400
Stories that have been passed down by word of mouth.
What are oral traditions?
400
One of the first law systems; an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
400
The process of conquering civilizations to extend an empire.
What is imperialism?
400
This River provided almost everything for the Egyptians, going straight down the center of egypt.
What is the Nile River?
400
Christian military expeditions to recapture the Holy Lands.
What are the crusades?
500
The transition from hunting + gathering to farming.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
500
Another name for Mesopotamia.
What is the Fertile Cresent?
500
A normal, lower class citizen in the Roman Republic
What is a plebian?
500
A series of rulers from the same family or ethnic group
What is a dynasty?
500
The lowest class in the roman republic, similar to slaves, that end up in debt with their leaders.
What is a serf?