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| History | "Those that cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" This reminds us we need to study what? |
| Prehistory | This is history before writing. |
| Legends | Stories that have some truth but have become exaggerated. |
| Archaeologists | Scientists who dig up the remains of past civilizations. |
| Carbon 14 | Radiocactive element that is in every living thing used for dating. |
| Evolution | Theory that over millions of years people and animals have changed. |
| Land bridge | How early people first came to America. |
| Neanderthal | Super strong men and women of the Ice Age. |
| Irrigation | Digging ditches and canals to water crops. |
| City-states | Cities that have their own government and independance. |
| Gilgamesh | This is the oldest known story about an ancient Sumerian king. |
| Polytheism | This is the belief in many gods. |
| Ziggurats | Sumerian temples- means "mountain of god." |
| Hammurabi | Famous Babylonian king, "eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth". |
| Anno Domini | What does A.D. stand for? |
| Before Christ | What does B.C. stand for? |
| Pharaohs | Men, rulers and gods who ruled Egypt. |
| Great Pyramid | Largest of the pyramids of Egypt. |
| Rosetta Stone | Without this we would never have been able to read hieroglyphs. |
| King Tut | Boy pharaoh whose tomb wasn't robbed. |
| Akhenaten | First monotheist - pharaoh in Egypt. |
| Osiris | Egyptian god of the dead. |
| Ramses | Greatest pharoah of Egypt. Built Abu Simbel. |
| loess | Extremely fertile soil deposited by the Yellow River. |
| Shih Hwang Ti (Chang) | He built the Great Wall of China and a specral "ghost" army. |
| Confucius | "To know what is right and not to do it, that is cowardice." |
| "Promised Land" | What the Hebrews call Canaan. |
| Passover | The night the angel of death passed over the Hebrews. |
| Ark of the Covenant | What the Hebrews kept the Ten Commandments in. |
| Jericho | One of the world's first cities and where Joshua brought the walls down. |
| Delilah | Beauty who betrayed Samson and gave him a haircut. |
| David | Slayer of Goliath. |
| Solomon | Built a great temple. Famous for wisdom. Yikes 700 wives. |
| Jesus of Nazareth | Jews and Christians differ in their opinion of what man? |
| triremes | Ancient Mediterranean warships. |
| Homer | Blind poet. Wrote the Illiad and the Odyssey. |
| Helen | Most beautiful woman. "Face that launched a thousand ships." |
| Achilles | Incincible warrior of the Myceneans. |
| democracy | Rule by the people invented in Athens. |
| helots | Spartan slaves. |
| Socrates | Drank hemlock juice for making young people think. |
| Alexander the Great | Conquered the Persian Empire and spread Greek ideas. |
| Hannibal | Led an army with war elephants over the Alps into Italy against the Romans. |
| Julius Caesar | Roman conqueror of Gaul and Egypt, stabbed on the Ides of March. |
| Pax Romana | "Roman peace." Prosperity in the Empire for 200 years. |
| Colosseum | 50,000 seat sports stadium in Rome. |
| Attila the Hun | Leader of the Huns, a nomadic, barbaric people who terrorized Rome. |
