Scholars
They study and write about the past
Historians
During this period, men used tools made of stone, bone, and wood.
Old Stone Age or Paleolithic Age
Babylonian king who had the laws collected and displayed
Hammurabi
land between the rivers
Mesopotamia
man-made, flat-topped mountains on which temples sat
ziggurats
They study the past through artifacts
archaeologists
nomads
King of the Akkadians (Akkad)
Sargon
Abraham moved to this city in Sumer
Ur
They were the highest class of people
Priests and Kings
These anthropologists excavated in Olduvai Gorge
The Leakeys
surplus
He was an early artisan who played musical instruments
Jubal
This mountain range borders Sumer to the South East
Zagros
cuneiform
He found "Lucy" in Ethiopia
Johansson
The problem with absolute/ relative dating
conditions may have been different before the flood, etc.
made up the lowest class in Sumer
criminals and slaves
the two rivers that surround Mesopotamia
Tigris and Euphrates
body of water that lies West of Mesopotamia
Mediterranean Sea