Pre-history
Mesopotamia
Ancient Egypt
Vocabulary
Grab Bag
100

The person studies history through written information and artifacts from the past. 

Archeologist

100

Mesopotamia is also call the Fertile....

Crescent

100

This river flows through Egypt

The Nile River

100

This is fine, rocky soil rich in minerals left behind by flooding rivers

silt

100

Which continent is Egypt on? 

Africa

200

Early art was discovered on what?

The walls of caves

200

What are the two rivers in Mesopotamia? 

Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

200

This stone palette tells the story of how Egypt was united under one king. 

Narmer's Palette

200

When an animal is tamed so that it can live peacefully with humans

domesticated

200

Name something invented by the Sumerians

Open Ended: some ideas include....the wheel, writing, counting, farming tools, harp, lyre, 

300

Humans have existed for about this long

Over 100,000 years. 

300

This is a Sumerian temple built to honor their gods.


A ziggurat

300

The is the title given to an Egyptian king

pharaoh

300

The process of humans controlling how river water reaches their crops, such as building ditches. 

Irrigation

300

This civilization's writing has not been deciphered and is still a mystery

Indus Valley, Harappa, Mohenjo Daro

400

What continent did first modern humans live on?

Africa

400

This is the Sumerian form of writing that was carved into clay.

Cuneiform

400

The famous stone, carved in three laguages, unlocked the code to reading hieroglyphs

The Rosetta Stone

400

A person with no fixed home who wanders from place to place, often in search of food. 

Nomad

400

"History" begins the the invention of this

writing

500

How did early man usually kill a woolly mammoth?

Chased them off of a cliff

500

Mesopotamia is located in today's present country

Iraq

500

This oval shape found carved under tombs, statues, and buildings includes the hieroglyphs of important leaders including pharaohs. 

A cartouche

500

A person who collects food to eat by hunting wild animals and gathering edible plants

Hunter Gatherer

500

What does B.C. E stand for?

Before Common Era