What is History?
The use of land for growing crops and raising animals.
What is agriculture?
A large, slow-moving mass of ice and snow.
What is a glacier?
A dead body kept from rotting by being treated with chemicals and wrapped in cloth.
What is a mummy?
To get control by using force, as in a war.
A government that gives the people the ruling power.
What is a democracy?
A handmade object, such as a tool or weapon.
What is an artifact?
A trade or art that takes special skill with the hands.
What is a craft?
A system of writing using pictures or symbols to represent objects, ideas, or sounds.
What is hieroglyphics?
The Phoenicians were not farmers, they were...
What is traders?
This Greek city-state lived in peace and asked questions about their world.
What is Athens?
A complete change, especially in a way of lofe or government.
What is a revolution?
The earliest known farming took place here.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
A writing paper the Egyptians made from water plants of the same name.
What is papyrus?
This ancient civilization believed in one god, Yahweh and was led out of slavery in Egypt to the Promised Land.
Who are the Israelites?
In this city-state, boys were turned over to the government at the age of seven to train to be warriors.
What is Sparta?
A scientist who studies cultures of the past by digging up and examining the remains of ancient towns and cities.
What is an archaeologist?
A huge, towerlike temple.
What is a ziggurat?
A king of ancient Egypt.
What is a pharaoh?
These two civilizations were known to be warlike and mighty fighters.
Who are the Hittites and Assyrians?
These two city-states fought for 27 years in the Peloponnesian War.
What are Sparta and Athens?
Someone who writes about the past; an expert in history.
What is a historian?
A wedge-shaped form of writing used in ancient Sumer.
What is cuneiform?
A huge stone structure with a square base and four triangular sides that met in a point at the top. Egyptian rulers were buried here.
What is a pyramid?
The Sumerian civilization was destroyed by these people whose capital city stood on the banks of the Euphrates River.
Who are the Babylonians?
This event took place for the first time in 776 B.C. at the temple of Zeus in Olympia and consisted of foot races.
What are the Olympics?