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ESL: Early Civ Vocab
ESL Textbook Vocabulary: Early Civilizations pages 46-60
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The separate levels of people in a society are called ___________. | classes |
| People who come to a country from another place to take over by force are called _____. | invaders |
| A _______ is a group of people living together. | society |
| _______ are ancient Egyptian tombs | Pyramids |
| Something that is very old is _______. | ancient |
| A pharoah was the _____ of Egypt. | ruler |
| When you p_____, you try to guess what will happen next. | predict |
| Egyptians p_______ the bodies of dead people. | preserved |
| The dead bodies were called m________. | mummies |
| Workers made a sarcophagus, or c__________. | coffin |
| Egyptians buried the pharoah in a t___. | tomb |
| In the Nubian city of Kerma, people buried their kings in m______. | mounds |
| Ancient China was the largest e_____ in Asia. | empire |
| When one family rules for many years it is called a d_________. | dynasty |
| A Chinese e________ was called the "Son of Heaven." | emporer |
| The ancient Persians w_______ many gods. | worshipped |
| Ancient farmers planted c____ such as corn and wheat | crops |
| A scientist who finds out how early people lived is an a______________. | archaeologist |
| Large areas of ice called g_____ once covered much of the earth. | glaciers |
| Early humans who hunted animals and gathered plants for food were ________________. | hunters-gatherers |
| Farmers sometimes use river water as i__________ for their crops. | irrigation |