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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Time before written history | prehistory |
| Things and events of the past | history |
| People who study the past | historians |
| People who study items used by people of the past | archeologists |
| Study human beings and cultures | anthropologists |
| These are sometimes used to study bone fragments and artifacts | computers |
| Scientist who studies fossils | paleontologist |
| Period of time when early people made tools of stone | Stone Age |
| Old Stone Age | Paleolithic period |
| People who move from place to place in search of food | nomads |
| New Stone Age when farming began | Neolithic period |
| centralized society with developed forms of government, education | civilization |
| Way of life that includes language, religion, dress | culture |
| remains left by ancient people | artifacts |
| belief in many gods | polytheism |
| belief in only one God | monotheism |
| groups of related family members who worked together to find food, clothing, shelter | bands |
| Raising of domesticated plants, animals (farming) | agriculture |
| Farming allows villages then cities then ____ | citystates |
| When different members of the band specialized in jobs | division of labor |
| Surplus of ___ allowed people to settle | food |
| exchange of goods and services without using money | barter |
| First villages were formed in the __ | Fertile Crescent |
| land between two rivers | Mesopotamia |
| All major civilizations settled near ___ | rivers |
| rich farmland | fertile |
| part of Mesopotamia where cities first began | Sumer |
| Invented wheel and canals | Sumerians |
| Sumer's form of wedge-shaped writing | cuneiform |
| First ruler of Sumer (army) | Sargon |
| First written laws | hammurabi's code |
| invented to keep track of trading | writing |
| First people who could read and write | scribes |
| invented alphabet, purple, ships | Phoenicians |
| ten year | decade |
| 100 years | century |
| Before Common Era | BCE |
| longest river in the world (Egypt) | Nile |
| paper-like material made out of reed | papyrus |
| these jars were used to store organs of mummies | canopic |
| Egyptian kings considered to be gods | pharoahs |
| first female pharoah | Hapshepsut |
| Egyptian writing | hieroglyphics |
| built as burial places for pharaohs | pyramids |
| Great pharaoh buried in Valley of Kings | RamsesII |
| Key to understanding hierogylphics | Rosetta Stone |
| Egypts golden age | New Kingdom |
| Leader of Kush who felt gods wanted him to capture Egypt | Pianki |
| Along with the Nile, this protects Egypt from invaders | Sahara Desert |
| If both numbers on a time line are BCE you ____ | subtract |
| One BCE number and one CE number you ____ | add |
| These are usually NOT surrounded by mountains | citystates |
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