| A | B |
|---|
| artifact | an OBJECT from the past |
| archeologist | somebody who studies artifacts from the past |
| prehistory | things that happened BEFORE writing was invented |
| history | the recorded (WRITTEN) past |
| Neolithic Age | New Stone Age |
| Paleolithic Age | Old Stone Age |
| australopithecus afarensis | first biped (hominid) |
| homo habilis | first to use tools |
| homo erectus | first to use fire |
| homo sapien neanderthalensis | strongest and first to care for one another |
| homo sapien sapiens | smartest hominids and first to use art |
| agriculture | farming |
| civilization | an advanced community |
| government | how a country is run (the leadership) |
| ziggurat | a Sumerian temple |
| cuneiform | Sumerian writing |
| hieroglyphics | Egyptian writing |
| empire | a large area ruled by one person (who has conquered other areas) |
| aqueduct | a pipe that brings water from a river to a nearby city |
| peasant | the lowest member of Egypt's society: a farmer and builder |
| artisan | the artists in Egypt |
| scribe | somebody who writes down information |
| pyramid | an Egyptian tomb |
| Egyptianization of Kush | when the Kushites adopted a lot of Egypt's ways of life |
| Torah | the holy book of the Jews |
| Abraham | the father of the Jews |
| Moses | the leader of the Exodus |
| David | made Israel a strong kingdom |
| Solomon | made the Temple of Jerusalem |
| Exodus | the journey of the Israelite slaves from Egypt back to Israel |
| Diaspora | the scattering of the Jews throughout the world after Israel was conquered |
| Hatshepsut | the first female pharaoh who built Egypt up based on TRADE |
| Ramses | Egypt's strongest military leader/pharaoh |
