Vocabulary
People
Places
Cause & Effect
Bonus
100
Weapons, tools, and other things made by humans that archaeologists dig up and study.
What is an artifact?
100
People who regularly move from place to place.
What are nomads?
100
City built in the 1800s B.C. by a powerful group of people in Mesopotamia. It is located by the Euphrates River.
What is Babylon?
100
Provided people with a steady supply of food and allowed them to settle into villages.
What were the effects of farming on early humans?
100
Groups of traveling merchants.
What are caravans?
200
Taming animals and plants for human use.
What is domestication?
200
Skilled workers who made metal products, cloth, or pottery.
What are artisans?
200
"The land between the rivers."
What is Mesopotamia?
200
Allowed people to develop different kinds of jobs other than farming.
What was the effect of specialization?
200
Traces of facts or animals that have been preserved in rock.
What are fossils?
300
A complex society with cities, an organized government, art, religion, a system of writing, and class divisions.
What is a civilization?
300
Scientists who hunt for, dig up, and study artifacts.
Who are archaeologists?
300
One of the earliest communities formed in the Middle East. It is found in the West Bank between what are now Israel and Jordan.
What is Jericho?
300
Allowed farmers to grow plenty of food and supplement a large population.
What was the effect of irrigation on early civilizations?
300
A set of laws that a Babylonian leader established for his empire.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
400
A group of many different lands under one ruler.
What is an empire?
400
The king of the Akkadians.
Who is Sargon?
400
The region where many cities had formed in southern Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer?
400
Allowed people to understand more about the heavenly bodies by mapping the stars, the planets, and the phases of the moon.
What were the effects of astronomers on the first civilizations?
400
Record keepers who held honored positions in society.
What are scribes?
500
Tools and methods to help humans perform tasks.
What is technology?
500
The Babylonian king who began conquering cities to the north and south and created the Babylonian Empire.
Who is Hammurabi?
500
An empire that arose in Mesopotamia 1,000 years after Hammurabi ruled. It is located near the Tigris River.
What is Assyria?
500
Provided people with animals to carry goods and pull carts.
What were the effects of domesticated animals during the Neolithic Age?
500
Stone, bone, and wooden tools and weapons. Hint: Technology
What technology was established during the Paleolithic Age?
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