Vocabulary

• Bias - a one sided, or unfair point of view
• prehistoric - belonging to the time before people recorded history
• primary source - a source of evidence from the time being studied
• secondary source - a source of evidence created after the period being investigated
• reliability - something you can trust
• Archaeologist - a person who studies human history and prehistory by investigating sites, artefacts, and human remains.
• Hieroglyphics - a system of writing that uses pictures instead of words
• settlement - a place where you stay at for a while
• nomadic - a member of a person that travels from one place to another
• acropolis - the large hill in the centre of ancient athens
• Athens - one of the major city-states of Ancient Greece. The capital of modern Greece
• Aristotle - a scientist and philosopher of Ancient Greece
• citizen - a free male born in a city state. eligible to vote
• city-state - an autonomous city with its own laws and government.
• democracy - a political where the citizens have the right to vote for their leaders
• hoplite - a Greek soldier
• oracle - a person who looks at omens to foretell the future
• parthenon the temple of Athena in Athens on the top of the acropolis
• Philosopher - an intellectual who asks questions about the meaning of life and the universe
• Trojan Horse - a large wooden horse built by the Greeks to fool the Trojans into opening their gates.
• Troy - a city in what is now Turkey where a 10 year war against the greeks was fought.