Pre-History
These preserved remains of a once-living organism is actually more rock than biological remains
What is a fossil?
When water overflows the banks of a river, usually from melting snow runoff. Watch out in the spring time!
What is flooding?
The longest river in the world flows this direction on most maps.
What is north?
A wheeled cart pushed or pulled by a flying mythical Chinese creature.
What is a dragon wagon?
It is the direction we move "to the right" on most maps.
What is East?
These objects, once used or modified by humans, can be used by modern man to learn about earlier peoples.
What is an artifact?
This "curved" region became important for its ability to grow abundant grain in the Tigris and Euphrates river valleys.
What is the Fertile Crescent
This landform forms at the mouth of a river where sediment builds up, often creating a triangular shape.
What is a delta?
The leader of Rome, who is too old to walk without a cane.
What is a Caesar Geezer?
This popular classroom item has a teacher's name, a maze, 6 screws, and a lot of germs on it.
What is Jensen's bathroom pass?
Magnet men moving throughout the classroom. Or what we did when we moved from room 121 to 103.
What is migration?
Wedge shaped marks in clay, used for record keeping and trade in early Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
The ancient powder (made up of salt and baking soda)that Egyptian priests would pack in a deceased person's body to dry it out.
What is Natron?
An ancient, deceased Egyptian wrapped up, who ate too much and developed this "Dad bod" body part.
What is a Mummy Tummy?
This direction is between "Never" and "Never Waffles" on a compass or map.
What is north by northwest?
Examples of this land formation include Florida, Baja California, Italy and South Korea.
What is a peninsula?
This gulf contains the mouths of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, as well as the amin waterway for 20% of the world's oil.
What is the Persian Gulf?
Ancient Egyptians developed this paper, also named after the plant that the paper comes from.
What is Papyrus?
The god-king of Egypt, with a very common small brown bird.
What is a Pharaoh sparrow?
This modern country is where ancient invaders came from to climb the "great wall" and pillage Chinese villages.
What is Mongolia?
The first AGE of humans, sometimes called the "Old Stone Age" when humans first started to travel successfully.
What is Paleolithic?
282 of the world's earliest laws covering topics from trade, family, crime, and the justifiable punishments. Eye for an eye, etc.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
This was the biggest advantage the Nile provide Egyptians over the temperamental Euphrates and Tigris rivers in Mesopotamia.
What is slower, predictable flooding?
This written language was developed in Mesopotamia and written on clay tablets, by a mythical horned horse.
What is a Cuneiform Unicorn?
This ancient civilization was the first to use boats extensively to explore its many nearby islands.
What is Greece?