Vocabulary
A series of rulers from a single family, spanning over generation after generation.
Dynasty
Highly mobile people who moved from place to place searching for new food sources were called?
Nomads
Early government in Sumer was controlled by who?
Preists
The process of mummification was connected to the Egyptian belief in:
Afterlife
What were the two most powerful city-states in early Greece?
Athens and Sparta
A city and its surrounding lands functioning as an independent political unit.
City - State
Why was the discovery of Lucy significant?
She showed evidence that the earliest humans were developing in Eastern Africa.
The Sumerians developed these, which functioned almost like an independent country
City-States
Narmer is famous for being
The first Pharoah to a united Egypt
What was the Dorian Age also known as?
The Dark Age
A human-made object, such as a tool, weapon, or piece of jewelry.
Artifact
Who was the anthropologist that discovered Lucy?
Donald Johnason
Which is NOT one of the inventions the Sumerians created?
They invented all three
What years represent the Middle Kingdom
2050 bc - 1650 bc
How did the climate affect the Greeks lifestyle?
It caused them to do more things outside
An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds.
Heiroglyphics
Once discovered and tested by science, Lucy was thought to be how old?
3.5 million years old
Sargon the Great, the leader of the Akkadians, is credited with creating the world’s first
road system
How old was King Tut when he came to the throne?
9 years old
Hera was the goddesses of what?
Marriage
A people's unique way of life, as shown by its tools, customs, arts, and ideas.
Culture
Paleontology is to ________________ as anthropology is to _________________.
Studying fossils; studying one’s culture
What was the capital of the Assyrian Empire?
Ur
What is the Valley of the Kings?
Where all the pharaohs from the New Kingdom are buried.
What caused Sparta and Athens to unite?
They had a common enemy, the Persian Empire