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Jude 6th - Chapter 2
Chapter 2: Beginning Man's Story
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| history | period of human life that has written records |
| pre-history | time before written records |
| B.C. | before Christ |
| A.D. | Anno Domini |
| paleontologist | scientist who studies the traces left by mankind during the years before writing |
| archaeologist | scientist who finds and digs up cities, bones, etc. looking for evidence of mankind |
| anthropologist | scientist who studies different human cultures and behaviors among ancient people |
| artifact | an item worked on or made by man |
| radiocarbon dating | method of determining how old something is |
| homo erectus | upright man |
| homo sapien | thinking man |
| homo sapien sapien | thinking man, the wise |
| neanderthal | cousin of our ancient ancestors who no longer exists |
| nomad | someone who does not have a permanent home, who travels from place to place looking for food |
| hunters and gatherers | people who hunt and gather their food |
| irrigate | to bring water to |
| fertile crescent | a crescent shaped area of excellent farmland in the Middle East |
| Mesopotamia | land between two rivers |
| Tigris and Euphrates Rivers | rivers that run near Mesopotamia |
| silt | dirt, sand, and mud that is carried by moving water |
| ziggurat | solid, layered pyramid structure that Sumerians used to be closer to their sky gods |
| wheel | most important Sumerian invention |
| writing | most important Sumerian legacy |
| cuneiform | early form of writing created by the Sumerian people |
| Egypt | world's first nation-state that had a unified government, common language, and common culture |
| Nile River | river that runs through Egypt |
| Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt | two kingdoms of Egypt |
| hieroglyphics | ancient Egypt's writing system |
| papyrus | first paper |
| Ra | major Egyptian sun god |
| mummification | ancient Egyptian way of preserving dead bodies so that departed souls could use them again |
| pyramid | ancient Egyptian tombs for pharaohs |
| pharaoh | ancient Egyptian king |
| Great Pyramid in Giza | largest pyramid in Egypt |
| Great Sphinx | represented the sun god Ra |
| polytheism | worship of many gods |
| monotheism | worship of one god |