vocabulary
Tools and weapons found in ancient ruins
What are artifacts?
The age when stone was used to make tools, is also known as the Paleo-Meso-Neo _______ Age.
What is "lithic"?
Another name for Mesopotamia
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The type of religion practiced by ancients Egyptians.
What is polytheism?
The Wailing Wall in Jerusalem is very important to this religion.
What is Judaism?
Another way to refer to B.C., or the time period Before Christ.
What is B.C.E. or Before Common Era?
The reason civilizations were able to begin during the Neolithic Period was because, what could take place?
What is "remain in one place, and have surplus food?"
The king who was very powerful and wrote very strict laws, came from this place.
Where is Babylon? (Hammurabi's Code)
This brought fertile soil and transportation to the ancient Egyptians.
Followers of Islam
What are Muslims?
"city" in Greek
What is a polis?
The time during the Stone Age when food sources shifted from hunting and gathering.
What is the Agricultural Revolution / Neolithic Revolution?
Mesopotamian temples used to get closer to gods.
What is a ziggurat?
King Menes was famous for this.
What is uniting Upper and Lower Egypt?
These two religions believe in a cycle of rebirth.
What are Hinduism and Buddhism?
An adjective to describe something which is "Greek-like"
What is Hellenistic?
Before writing, this was a form of self expression for early humans.
What are cave paintings?
This country is the current location of ancient Mesopotamia.
What is Iraq?
A reed "paper" used for writing.
What is papyrus?
The Fourth Noble Truth
What is the Eightfold Path?
These are important to a society.
What are values?
Earliest humans were found on this continent, but then migrated to Europe.
What is Africa?
The type of writing which was developed and impressed into clay tablets had this shape.
What is wedge shaped?
Mummified internal organs could be found here.
What are canopic jars?
Two religions or philosophies to come out of ancient China
What are Confucianism and Taosim?