Vocabulary 1
The study of the past.
What is history?
King of Uruk, a city-state in Sumer, he became a legendary figure in Sumerian literature.
Who is Gilgamesh?
They increased chances for survival for early humans.
What are tools?
The study of landforms, climate, and the environment.
What is physical geography?
They served as a representative to the gods.
What are priests?
The systematic study of past human life and culture by the recovery and examination of remaining material evidence, such as graves, buildings, tools, and pottery.
What is Archaeology?
A huge stone monument.
What is megaliths?
An early ancestor of humans.
What is hominid?
The study of places and the people that live in them.
What is geography?
To worship many gods.
What is polytheism?
The natural features of the earth's surface.
What are landforms?
The New Stone Age, when people learned to make fire and tools such as saws and drills.
What is Neolithic?
Another name for the Paleolithic era is ___________.
What is the Stone Age?
A story told by someone who was there.
What is primary source?
Sumerian working class.
What are farmers and laborers?
All the living and nonliving things that affect life in an area.
What is environment?
A mixture of fertile soil and tiny rocks that can make land ideal for farming.
What is silt?
Ancestor.
What is a relative who lived in the past?
The two main types of geography.
What are physical and human geography?
The world's first emperor.
Who is Gilgamesh?
What is Agriculture?
A historical crescent-shape region in the Middle East.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The time before there was writing.
What is prehistory?
Rivers, valleys, and mountains are examples of
What are landforms?
I am at the top of the social class.
What is I am a king?