| A | B |
|---|
| agriculture | farming |
| afterlife | a life that follows death |
| aqueduct | carries water to a distant source |
| artifact | a human made object |
| city-state | a city and its nearby land |
| civilization | a society with an advanced culture |
| Colosseum | arena in Rome for entertainment |
| cuneiform | wedged shape writings |
| delta | area near a river's mouth;fertile land |
| democracy | people vote for their leaders |
| domesticate | to raise plants or animals |
| drought | little or no rainfall |
| embalm | a process of preserving the dead |
| fertile | good soil for growing crops |
| geography | the study of Earth and its people |
| gladiator | a trained fighter in Rome |
| hunter-gatherer | humans who hunt and gather plants |
| irrigation | the watering of crops |
| migration | movement of people from one place to another |
| monotheism | belief in one god |
| mummy | a preserved human |
| Neolithic Revolution | The New Stone Age; people farmed |
| nomad | people who move from place to place |
| oligarchy | government ruled by a few |
| obelisk | a four sided structure |
| Paleolithic Revolution | Old Stone Age |
| patrician | upper class in Rome |
| peninsula | land surrounded by water on three sides |
| pharaoh | Egyptian kings |
| pictograph | picture writing |
| plague | a disease that spreads and kills many people |
| plebeian | common people of Rome |
| primary source | something written or created by someone who witnessed the event |
| pyramid | an Egyptian structure |
| scribe | writers and record keepers |
| secondary source | a writing done by someone who did not witness the event |
| stylus | reed used with clay tablets |
| surplus | having extra |
| ziggurat | a temple in Mesopotamia |
| polytheism | a belief in many gods |
