Early People's Technology
The period of time when people used simple stone tools.
What is Paleolithic Era?
The time period when people began to settle down in permanent locations.
What is Neolithic Era?
Loose soil carried by water.
What is silt?
One of the earliest writing systems in the world.
What is cuneiform?
Written collection of the laws that apply to the people ruled by one government.
What is Code of Laws?
People who met their needs by hunting animals and gathering plants.
Who are hunter-gatherers?
The raising of crops and animals for human use.
What is agriculture?
Long periods of time without rain.
What are Droughts?
A group of lands and people ruled by one government.
What is an empire?
Raised waterway
What is an aqueduct?
The use of tools and skills to meet practical human needs.
What is technology?
To train to do a specific task.
What is specialize?
A wall that keeps a river within its banks.
What is a levee.
A large building with a temple on top.
What is a ziggurat?
The belief in only one God.
What is monotheism?
Shaping stones by chipping pieces of the edges?
What is flaking?
Cultures with systems of religion, education and government.
What is civilization?
A system of canals to bring water to crops and fields.
What is irrigation?
A self-governing city and its surrounding villages.
What is city-state?
One of the Seven Wonders of the World that is thought to be a myth today.
What is Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
The first metal that was used by early people to make tools.
What is copper?
One of the world's first cities.
What is Catal Huyak?
The wearing away of soil by wind or water.
What is erosion?
A belief in many gods and goddesses.
What is polytheism?
The king of Babylon who reunited the city-states of Sumer.
Who is Hammurabi?