Stone Age Man
Sumerians
Fertile Crescent
Vocabulary
7 Pillars of Civilization
Paleo v Neo
100

the manner in which early man found food

What are hunting and gathering?

100

Name the main reason for the flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?

What are melting snow and spring rains?
100

long poems that tell the stories of heroes

What are epics?

100

the study of the past based on what people left behind

What is archaeology?

100

The main priority for a civilization

What is a stable food and water supply?

100

Lived in caves

What are paleo?

200

the practice of farming is called

What is agriculture?

200

a way of supplying water to an area of land

What is irrigation?

200

a political unit consisting of a city and the surrounding countryside

What is a city-state?

200

a part or imprint of something that was once alive

What is a fossil?

200

innovation and advancements

What is technology?

200

Made wine

What is paleo?

300

lithos

What is stone?

300

human-made waterways

What are canals?

300

writer and record keeper

What is a scribe?

300

an account of an event created by someone who took part in or witnessed an event

What is a primary source?

300

hierarchy of humans

What is a social structure?

300

Domesticated animals

What is neo?

400

the act of taming and using animals for food, clothing, or pets

What is domesticate?

400

a temple-like building in the center of the city

What is the ziggurat?

400

a division of society by rank or class

What is social structure?

400

The knowledge, belief, customs, and values of a group of people

What is culture?

400

creative outlets

What are the arts?

400

Created agricultural practices

What is neo?
500

types of clothing worn by neolithic man

What are knittles?

500

world's first system of writing

What is cuneiform?
500

the worship of many gods

What is polytheism?

500

"The land between two rivers?

What is Mesopotamia?


500

sometimes these two pillars intersect and can cause problems in a civilization

What are government and religion?
500

what

are those

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