| A | B |
|---|
| theocracy | government where religious leader rules the state as representative of God |
| hominids | two-legged primates |
| dynasty | series of rulers belonging to the same family |
| Abraham | founder of Judaism |
| Hammurabi | writer of a code of rules |
| Roseta Stone | used to decipher hieroglyphics |
| democracy | government run directly by the people and their votes |
| Socrates | used a questioning method to come to solutions |
| republic | state where people elect representatives to aid in government |
| Aristotle | philosopher, inventor who felt happiness comes from moderation |
| 476 AD | Fall of the Roman empire |
| 1215 AD | Signing of Magna Carta |
| 800 AD | Crowning of Charlemagne by the Pope |
| Punic Wars | wars between Carthage and Rome for control of the Mediterranean Sea |
| Persian Wars | attack on Greece by the Persians |
| Peloponnesian War | war between Athens and Sparta to see who would control Greece |
| homo sapiens | human beings |
| Hanging Gardens | Nebuchadnezzar's contribution to civilization in Babylon |
| Scipio | fought Hannibal in Africa |
| Fabius | used delaying tactics against Hannibal to slow his attack on Rome |
| Phoenicians | created the alphabet |
| Sumerians | lived in the "land between the two rivers" |
| Fertile Crescent | "land between the Tigris and Euphrates River |
| Crusades | Christians "holy war" to free Jerusalem from Muslim control |
| Herodotus | historian, "father of lies" |
