| A | B |
|---|
| technology | the use of skills and tools to meet practical needs |
| Old Stone Age | when stone tools wer the most common technology |
| Border Cave | a cave in Zukuland, the northeastern tip of South Africa |
| agriculture | the raising of crops and animals for humans |
| New Stone Age | when people still depended on stone tools but experimeted with agriculture |
| civilization | a culture that has developed systems of specialization, religion, learning and government |
| Nile River | the longest river in the world. It flows northward through East Africa and into the Mediterranean Sea |
| Lower Egypt | the lower or downstream part of the Nile |
| Upper Egypt | the higher or upstream part of the Nile |
| Menes | the kind of Upper Egypt |
| Memphis | the capital city of Egypt |
| Khufu | Egyptian pharaoh who built the great phyramid |
| Thebes | a southern egyptian town |
| Nubia | an ancient kingdom south of Egypt |
| Ahmose | new kingdom pharaoh wh drove the Hyksos out of the Nile Delta and reunited Egypt |
| Kush | an ancient and wealthy kingdom |
| Hatshepsut | one of Egypt's few female rulers |
| Punt | an ancient Egyptian name for an area of Africa, south of Egypt |
| small scale map | a map that shows a big area in less detail |
| large scale map | a map that shows many details about a smaller area |
| Tutankhamen | a pharaoh best know for a magnificient tomb |
| VAlley of the Kings | the burial place of 30 new Kingdom pharaohs |
| Fertile Crescent | a fertile region in southwestern Asian that includes the region of Mesopotamia |
| Harappa | a city of the ancient Harappan civilization |
| Mahenjo Daro | a city of the ancient Harappan civililization |
| dharma | laws and duties of Hinduism |
| Buddhism | a religion that teaches that the most important things in life |
| Karma | a person's good or bad acts, which determine his rebirth |
| Four Noble Truths | the principles that rule life and promise an end to suffering |
| Eightfold Path | a set of instructions on the proper way to live |
| Middle Way | a life that is neither too strict not too easy |
| Siddhartha Gautama | Ancient Indian religious leader |
| Kosala | Ancient kingdom in Northern India where Siddhartha was born |
