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Early Man
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Greece
Rome
100
This is a person who hunted and gathered to get food.
What is a hunter-gatherer?
100
This is a long period of dry weather.
What is a drought?
100
A king in Ancient Egypt.
What is a pharaoh?
100
A form of government ruled by a king or queen.
What is a monarchy?
100
A slave or criminal who is forced to fight for entertainment.
Who is a gladiator?
200
This was a person who moves from place to place.
What is a nomad?
200
This is a form of writing using wedge-shaped symbols.
What is cuneiform?
200
Containers that held the organs of dead people.
What are canopic jars?
200
A central meeting place.
What is an agora?
200
The poor class in Rome.
Who are the plebians?
300
This is to train animals or plants to be useful to humans.
What is domesticate?
300
This is an extra supply of something.
What is a surplus?
300
The process of preserving a dead body.
What is mummification?
300
A piece of land that is surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
300
The wealthy class in Rome.
Who are the patricians?
400
This is when you spend most of your time doing one job.
What is specialize?
400
This is a large, flattened pyramid with several floors.
What is a ziggurat?
400
A fertile, fan-shaped area of land.
What is a delta?
400
A government ruled by the people.
What is a democracy?
400
A person who is chosen to act or speak for others.
Who is a representative?
500
This is a culture that has developed systems of specialization, religion, learning and government.
What is a civilization?
500
This is a city that has its own laws and rules nearby villages as well.
What is a city-state?
500
A tool that historians used to help translate hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
500
A form of government ruled by a small group of people.
What is an oligarchy?
500
A government in which the citizens have the right to elect their representatives to make laws.
What is a republic?