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| Artifacts | Objects that were made by people long ago and discovered by archaeologists? |
| Rosetta Stone | Jean Francois Champollion worked on this object for many years. It contained three Egyptian langues: Hieroglyphics, Demotic, and Greek. It helped him decode Hieroglyphics? |
| Hieroglyphics | The pictures or signs of Egyptian writing? |
| Pyramid | A large triangular shaped tomb in which a pharaoh was buried? |
| Irrigation | The watering of dry land by means of channels, streams, or pipes? |
| Papyrus | A paper made from reeds that grew in the Nile Delta? |
| Cuneiform | What kind of writing did the Mesopotamians write on clay tablets? |
| Code of Hammurabi | This was the world's first attempt to record laws into a code? |
| Bible | This sacred book contains much information about the ancient Hebrews? |
| Judaism | The religion developed by the ancient Hebrews? |
| Glaciers | Great sheets of slowly moving ice? |
| 10 Commandments | Laws given to Moses on Mt. Sinai? |
| Monsoon | A seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and South Asia, which blows from the southwest toward the land in summer bringing heavy rainfall? |
| Hinduism | An Indian religion whose believers belong to four major classes called castes? |
| Vedas | Collections of ancient Hindu hymns? |
| Buddhism | The religion founded by Buddha? |
| Practice Civil Disobedience | Gandhi helped India grain independence from Britain by encouraging Indians to ? |
| Philosophy | A Greek word meaning "love of wisdom"? |
| Democracy | A Greek word meaning "power of the people"? |
| Myth | A story about a Greek god or goddess? |
| Monarchy | A system of government ruled by a king or queen? |
| Tragedy | A Greek play that treats life seriously and usually has a sad ending? |
| Peninsula | A landmass that is surrounded by water on three sides is called a ? |
| Epics | Long poems, such as Homer's Iliad and The Odyssey, are called ? |
| Parthenon | This beautiful temple on the Acropolis in Athens was built in honor of Athena? |
