2015

The first civilizations began along river valleys.

Writing was the most important development of prehistoric times.

The first dynasty of China was the Shang.

The Egyptians measured things in cubits.

Constantine was Rome’s first emperor.

Egyptians believed in reincarnation, the wrapping of dead bodies in cloth strips.

A monsoon is a seasonal wind that brings rain to India.

Geography is the science that deals with land, weather, bodies of water, and plant and animal life.

The Sumerians invented writing.

A century is a period of a hundred years.

Egyptian civilization has given nothing important to the modern world.

Solon, a Greek leader, helped create democracy.

The Iliad and the Odyssey tell us about the Trojan War.

The reign of Augustus Caesar is known as the “Golden Age of Rome”.

A republic is a kind of government with no king in which a few people speak for the many.

The earliest people were nomads artifacts embers

_______ fought with bows and arrows.
archers artisans acrobats

In a _______ war people of the same country fight each other.
civil world cultural

_______ is the record of past events.
culture civilization history

Prehistory is the period in which people did not produce
________ records.
pained written stone

The Sumerians built their city-states in _______.
Mesopotamia
China
Egypt

The Egyptian civilization developed in the valley of the
_______.
Indus
Yellow
Nile

An agreement to work together to help one another is a
_______.
covenant alliance bargain

An _______ studies the beginnings and behavior of early people.
artifact astronaut anthropologist

_______ was one of the most important prehistoric discoveries.
fire obsidian artifacts

An empire is a nation which
_______ a large area of land.
adopts annexes rules

The Jewish people call their scared book the _______.
Vedas papyrus bible

_______was the first woman pharaoh.
Darius I
Mohenjo-Daro
Hatshepsut

The first villages in India and
China grew up along _______. deserts mountains
River valleys

Match each item bison
To rot away or spoil culture
Another name for buffalo eclipse diary decay
When the moon hides the sun
The values, attitudes, customs & language of a group
A primary source

Match each item pharaoh
Believe in reincarnation
Hindus
A large piece of land smaller than a continent
An Egyptian ruler subcontinent caste
Grand Canal
Class of people in India
Joined the Yellow & the
Yangtze Rivers

Match each item cuneiform
Became famous as sailors
Sumerian writing
Sargon I
Everyone feared their powerful army
Phoenicians
Assyrians
To disobey or fight against rebel
United the city-state of Mesopotamia

Match each item
Zoroaster
Temple where Sumerians worshipped their gods.
ziggurat
Hammurabi
Hebrews
Created the first law code
Moses led them out of slavery
Religious leader who preached to Persians nomads People who do not live in one place

Match each item
Claudius One reason for the decline of the Roman Empire
Theodosius
Chosen by guards to be emperor of Rome plague
Justinian
His code became the basis for
European legal systems useful practical
Made Christianity the official religion of the Roman
Empire

Match each item democracy
A group of actors who stand on stage and tell what is happening in a Greek play plebeians fought the Trojans in the Trojan War
Mycenaean helots chorus
Greatest contribution of the Greeks
Common people in Rome who were not rich
Spartan slaves

Another word for the human race.

A first-hand account of a historical event.

The customs, values, and language of a people.

Having to do with the whole world.

An object made by a person.

Scientists measure the amount of carbon left in an artifact in this kind of dating.

The earliest period of human history.

This helped Stone-Age humans store their food.

A hard metal made of copper and tin.

A people who have government and cities.

What metal covering protects the body in battle?

What area in the Middle East is shaped like a quarter-moon?

What is the system of making and trading things called?

Vocabulary word What do we call a ruler of a province or a state?

Which Egyptian kingdom is known as the “empire age”?

Who crossed the Alps with elephants and invaded Italy?

Which Roman emperor was considered insane or mentally ill?

Which war last for 100 years and was fought between Rome and
Carthage?

A _____________________ is a
Greek city-state.
Vocabulary word

When King Philip II conquered
Greece, the Greeks lost their
________________ or freedom.

A _________________ is a governing body that helps rulers make decisions.

Rule by three people is called a

_______________________ was a Greek philosopher who questioned Athenian democracy and was put to death for doing so.

Many Romans saw the new religion of ________ as an answer to their problems.

____________________ was a soldier who conquered the world between 334 B.C. and 323 B.C.

Make a list of the things you have learned about this year in World
History.

The rich layer of soil left behind after a flood is_______. delta papyrus silt