Social Studies Mid-Year
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- forum
- center of Rome with a public square for citizens to talk of news and government
- Nile River
- worlds longest river bringing water to the desert in central Africa
- civilization
- a large group of people with a government, a set of beliefs, and ways of learning
- Athens
- city-state in ancient Greece with a democracy of citizens voting on ideas
- lord
- leader who was given the manor and had to promise to fight for the king
- democracy
- a government where citizens make the decisions. Athens was a democracy.
- Rome
- city that sat on the seven hills above the Tiber River in a country known now as Italy
- equator
- imaginary line halfway between the North Pole and the South Pole
- decade
- 10 years
- silt
- rich soil left behind along the river banks after the river floods
- papyrus
- the paper used by the Egyptians that came from a plant
- Name the seven continents
- North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica
- citizen
- a person who lives in a community
- millennium
- 1,000 years
- mouth
- end of river that flows into a sea or bay
- fact
- a statement that can be proven
- opinion
- a statement stating how someone feels or thinks
- acropolis
- a fort built on the top of a hill in Greece with temples honoring gods, houses, and an agora(market place)
- society
- a group of people living and working together under a set of rules
- Sparta
- city-state in ancient Greece with an army and ruled by a Senate
- fertile
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good for growing crops
- Ancient
- very old, very early times
- tool
- something people use to make a job easier
- ziggurat
- a tower made of mud bricks with a holy place at the top for a favorite god
- Pompeii
- city that was buried under lava from Mount vesuvius in ancient Rome
- gladiator
- Roman slave or prisoner forced to fight for the entertainment of others
- cuneiform
- symbols used by Sumerians standing for different sounds
- Monarchy
- a government ruled by a King or Queen
- source
- beginning of a river
- knight
- warriors who served a lord and trained to fight battles wearing armor
- globe
- a model of the earth, round like a ball
- hieroglyphics
- picture symbols used for writing
- Sumerian people
- invented wheeled cart and writing
- mummy
- a body preserved, dried out, using a kind of salt and oils and buried in tombs
- Middle Ages
- a time in European history after the Roman Empire fell; 500-1500 AD
- pyramid
- Egyptian burial place or tomb for the Kings and Pharaohs
- ancestor
- member of a family that lived a long time ago
- century
- 100 years
- dictator
- a ruler with the power to make all the government decisions. Julius Caesar was a dictator in Ancient Rome.
- manor
- part of a kingdom of land made up of forests, farmland, a church, village, and a main house or castle
- government
- a group of citizens who make rules for a community
- delta
- low land formed at the mouth of rivers.
- Olympic Games
- began as a footrace in ancient Greece in 776 BC
- pharaoh
- ancient Kings of Egypt