Farming
This is when there is an excess of food, and it can be stored for later use.
What is a surplus?
This was the time period when humans were hunter-gatherers. The Earth was very cold and they needed to follow the movement of animals to survive.
What is the Ice Age?
This land is a smaller area within the Fertile Crescent. The Sumerian and Babylonian civilizations were located here. "Between two rivers."
What is Mesopotamia?
This figure was at the top of the social hierarchy in Egypt. This person was god on Earth.
Who is the Pharaoh?
Ths is a unit of time, it equals one hundred (100) years.
What is a Century?
This is the process of turning a wild animal into a tame animal.
What is domestication?
This period of time marked a revolution for humans. They learned how to farm and domesticate animals.
What is the Neolithic Era?
This is the first civilization in Mesopotamia and in the known history of the world.
Who are the Sumerians?
These structures contained the tomb and preparations for Egyptian Pharaohs to crossover to the afterlife.
What are the Pyramids?
This is the study of humans and their culture. It analyzes their behavior, society, and remains.
What is Anthropology?
This is the process which water is directed from a source to a place where it is needed. Used for farming and through use of canals, ditches, and dams.
What is irrigation?
This was an early form of paper. It was used in ancient Egypt.
What is papyrus?
This was the first know written set of laws. It showed everyone what the laws and punishments were.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
This group of people were the most numerous, had the least power, and were at the bottom of the social hierarchy in Egypt.
Who are slaves?
This is the belief in a single god.
What is Monotheism?
This is when a natural or man-made disaster happens and causes widespread severe hunger in an area.
What is famine?
This is the greater area in the Middle East that produced very rich soil. Many of the earliest civilizations started here.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
What were the two important rivers for the early civilization of Sumer?
What is are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
This is the ancient Egyptian form of writing that used pictographs.
What are hieroglyphics?
This is the most important figure in Christianity, the messiah.
Who is Jesus Christ?
Rivers in the Fertile Crescent did this this action frequently. This was both positive and negative, as it provided rich soil but also was destructive.
What is flooding?
What was one of the most important roles that scribes/writers did in the ancient world?
What is recording taxes, debt, trade, and other government records?
Atop this Mesopotamian structure, held a shrine for the gods.
What is a Ziggurat?
The discovery of this led scholars to translate hieroglyphics. Scholars were able to decipher the language with the help of ancient Greek script.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
This is the holy book of the Muslim people.
What is the Quran, or Koran?