Week 7-8 Vocab. Review

Decipher

• Four-sided pillars

• To figure something out

• Animals that sleep during the day

Caravan

• Storytellers who pass on traditions and stories.

• A group of people traveling together for safety.

• Animals that sleep during the day.

Monument

• Something designed and built as a lasting public tribute to a person or event, usually a large statue or building.

• A human-made waterway that allows boats and ships to pass from one body of water to another.

• An ancient stone or marble coffin, often decorated with sculpture and inscriptions.

Griots

• Storytellers who pass on traditions and stories

• Four-sided pillars topped with a pyramid-shaped block

• To figure out the meaning of

Inscription

• An ancient stone or marble coffin, often decorated with sculpture and inscriptions.

• A human-made waterway that allows boats and ships to pass from one body of water to another

• Writing that is carved, pressed or painted on stone, brick, metal or other hard surfaces as a way of keeping a historical or religious record.

Nocturnal

• A group of people, often traders, traveling together for safety

• Something designed and built as a lasting public tribute to a person or event, usually a large statue or building

• Animals that sleep during the day and are active at night

Sarcophagus

• Major roads or paths used for long periods of time by travelers engaged in the business of exchanging goods between countries

•  An ancient stone or marble coffin, often decorated with sculpture and inscriptions

• Four-sided pillars topped with a pyramid-shaped block

Obelisks

• Four-sided pillars topped with a pyramid-shaped block

• Storytellers who pass on traditions and stories

•  An ancient stone or marble coffin, often decorated with sculpture and inscriptions

Trade Routes

• Major roads or paths used for long periods of time by travelers engaged in the business of exchanging goods between countries

• To figure out the meaning of

• A group of people, often traders, traveling together for safety

Canal

• Animals that sleep during the day and are active at night

• A human-made waterway that allows boats and ships to pass from one body of water to another

• Major roads or paths used for long periods of time by travelers engaged in the business of exchanging goods between countries