Show:
Beginnings
The Fertile Crescent
Egypt
Greece
Rome
100
written and other recorded events of people
What is history?
100
the belief in many gods
What is polytheism?
100
a large waterfall
What is a cataract?
100
a long poem that tells a story
What is an epic?
100
a type of government in which citizens select their leaders
What is republic?
200
time before writing was invented
What is prehistory?
200
a professional writer
What is a scribe?
200
a plain at the mouth of a river, formed when sediment is deposited by flowing water
What is a delta?
200
a form of government in which citizens govern themselves
What is democracy?
200
a structure that carries water over long distances
What is an aqueduct?
300
a scientist who examines objects to learn about the past
What is an archeologist?
300
a story that explains people's beliefs
What is a myth?
300
DAILY DOUBLE!!! the title of the kings of ancient Egypt
What is pharoah?
300
a priest or priestess who spoke for the gods
What is an oracle?
300
a person who fought to the death as entertainment for the Romans
What is gladiator?
400
stories passed down by word of mouth
What are oral traditions?
400
many territories and peoples controlled by one government
What is an empire?
400
an early form of paper made from a reed plant
What is papyrus?
400
a public market and meeting place
What is an agora?
400
a person who dies for a cause
What is martyr?
500
the study of the earth's surface and the processes that shape it
What is geography?
500
groups of wedges and lines used to write several languages of the Fertile Crescent
What is cuneiform?
500
pictures and other written symbols that stand for ideas, things, or sounds
What are hieroglyphs?
500
in ancient Sparta, the term for slaves who were owned by the state
What are helots?
500
Final Jeopardy: an economic system in which land was owned by kings but held by vassals in return for their loyalty
What is feudalism?