Vocabulary
Mesopotamian Civilization
Early Humans
The First Empires
Potpourri
100

 The definition of a fossil.

What is traces of animal and plants preserved in rock?

100

The area known as the cradle of civilization.

What is Mesopotamia?

100

Hunters-Gatherers were always on the move meaning they were.

What is nomads?

100

People who study heavenly bodies and mapped stars.

What is astronomer?

100

Who is best known for their code of laws?

Who is Hammurabi?

200

To domesticate means?

What is to tame animals and plants for human use?

200

The civilization began in the valleys of what two rivers.

What is the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?

200

Paleolithic people had to adapt. They did this by.

What is....?

Creating Shelters.

Taming fire.

Creating warm clothing from wool.

Making tools.

200

Capital of the Assyrian empire.

What is Nineveh?

200

They hunt for evidence buried in the ground.

What is an archaeologist?

300

An artisan.

What is skilled workers who made metal products, cloths, or pottery?

300

Each Sumerian city and the land around it became a separate.

What is a city-state?

300

The Neolithic community that is in current day Turkey.

What is Catal Huyuk?

300

King of the Chaldeans

What is King Nebuchadnezzar?

300

Until what BC did the Paleolithic age last.

What is around 8000 BC?

400

A province is.

What is Political districts?

400

The Sumerians created many advances in Science and Math. They created geometry and number system based off of the number.

What is 60?

400

The mesolithic age people tamed this animal that many of call pets today. They used it for what purposes.

What is a wolf?

What is to hunt and guard?

400

What caused of the fall of the Chaldeans empire?

What is hard to control conquered peoples?

400

Neolithic revolution is also known as.

What is the Agricultural revolution?

500

The development of different kinds of jobs is.

What is Specialization?

500

The world's oldest known story from Sumer is.

What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?

500

Tool made by hitting a stone in a particular way.

What is a flake?

500

Mesopotamia became apart of this new empire.

What is the Persian empire?

500

Otis the iceman was found in these Alps.

What is the Otztal Alps?

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