| A | B |
|---|
| archaeologist | scientist who studies the lives of early people by analyzing objects they left behind |
| anthropologist | scientist who studies the ways people organize societies |
| paleolithic age | Old Stone Age- from 500,000 bc-10,000bc |
| Neolithic age | New stone age from 10,000-3500 BC |
| Nomad | Person who travels in search of food |
| technology | tools and skills people use |
| polythistic | the worship of many gods |
| theocracy | form of gov't where priest serve as kings |
| Barter economy | system in which one set of goods is exchanged for another |
| Culture | customs, ideas and way of life of a group of people |
| Geography | study of people, their environment and their resources |
| Latitude | messured in Degrees- north or south |
| Longitude | distance E. or W. of the Prime Meridian |
| Amon- Re | Sun god; was the most important egyptain God |
| Osiris | god of the Nile |
| Chapollion-Jean | French scholar who deciphered the Rosetta stone in the 1800's |
| Rosetta Stone | black rock found in eygpt,1799, had 3 types of writting [egyptian, hieroglyphics], demotic , and Greek |
| hieroglyphics | system of writting developed by epyptian priest |
| papyrus | reed that growsalong marshly shores; used for making paper in anceint Eygpt |
| fertile cresent | an are that streches in a arge arc from the Persian Gulf to the Med. Sea |
