Roush Final History Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
The study of earth and way the way people live on it | Geography |
Products of human skill | Artifacts |
Landforms | Natural features of the earth's land surface |
Exact location of a place on the earth's surface | Absolute location |
Folktales or stories passed down from generation to generation | Legends |
Average weather condition at a place over a period of years | Climate |
People who study ruins and artifacts | Archeologists |
Replaceable natural resources | Renewable Resources |
Irreplaceable natural resources | Nonrenewable resources |
Theory that the continents move | Continental Drift |
Old stone age | Paleolithic |
New stone age | Neolithic |
People who study the earth | Geologists |
People who study human beings | Anthropologists |
Large hole covered in branches trees and earth used to help people catch large animals | Pitfalls |
A piece of stone used to make weapons | Flint |
Big tusked animals that were killed for caot, warmth, and shelter | Mammoths |
Temple of hill of heaven, or mountain of god | Ziggurat |
Built a beautiful street to please people | Nebuchadnezzar |
OLdest know set of laws to exist | Code of Hammurabi |
Worship or believe in many gods | Polytheism |
Cradle of civilization, where civilization first began | Mesopotamia |
Group of states under one ruler | Empire |
Raised areas of flat or almost flat land | Plateau |
Sumerian writing made up of wedge-shaped signs | Cuneiform |
Tamed | Domesticate |
Time period | Ages |
Picture that stood for sounds and words | Pictograph |
People who move in place of food | Nomad |
Waterfalls or waves around a river | Cataracts |
First woman pharoah | Hatshepsut |
Founded the Tomb of King Tut | Howard Carter |
Roman officials elected to protect the lower classes | Tribute |
Believed to help the dead archieve afterlife | Book Of Dead |
Sumerian writing | Scribes |
Egyptain writing based on pictures | Hieroglyphics |
Body wrapped in linen to preserve it | Mummy |
Gave water, food, fertile soil, passway for ships | The Gift Of The Nile |
Paper made of reed | Papyrus |
Falcon God, gave pharoahs power to rule | Horus |
Sun God | Amon - Ra |
Last Pharoah of Egypt ever | Cleopatra |
Large Egypatian tombs | Pyramid |
Egyptian ruler | Pharaoh |
Meant to repreasent Upper and Lower Egypt | Double Crown |
A low triangular area of alluvial deposits where a river divides before entering a bigger body of water | Delta |
Youngest egyptian pharoah, king age 9-18 | King Tut |
Greek like | Hellenistic |
An educated guess | Hypothesis |
Sad, woeful | Tragedies |
Funny humorus | Comedies |
Wrote Illiad & Odyssey | Homer |
A country where the people rule | Democracy |
Ruler of all Greek gods | Zeus |
"Father of History" | Herodotus |
To exchange goods without using money | Barter |
Greek goddess of victory | Nike |
Countries ruled by king or queen | Monarchy |
Games held every 4 years | Olympics |
Cities and the surronding territories | City-States |
Government in which a few people rule | Oligarchy |
Ancient Greek marketplace | Agora |
Underground cemeterites | Catacombs |
Was a Roman general about to be crowned king but was murdered instead | Julius Caesar |
A political system where land owners had more power | Feudalism |
Roman god equavilent to Zeus | Jupiter |
Code in which knights swore to live by | Code of Chivalry |
Fighters in gladitorial games | Gladiator |
Political districts | Provinces |
Government in whichcitizens choose their leaders | Republic |
Used to carry water to bathhouses | Aqueducts |
To kill | Assassinate |
Peace that lasted over 200 years | "Pax Romana" |
Wore by poorer Romans | Toga |
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