Early Humans
Vocabulary
Mesopotamia
Geography
Leaders
100

Historians call this the early period of human history.

What is the Old Stone Age?

100

People who study human society.

Who are anthropologist?

100

A form of writing developed by the people of Sumer.

What is cuneiform?

100

First civilizations arose near these two rivers.

What are the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers?

100

The Chaldean King most famous for his accomplishment of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

Who is King Nebuchadnezzar?

200

Paleolithic people lived in this time period.

What is the Old Stone Age?

200

Evidence of early weapons, tools, or other things made by humans.

What are artifacts?

200

A method developed to bring water to crops.

What is irrigation?

200

An area of good farmland was also known as the __________.

What is the Fertile Crescent?

200

King of the Akkadians who's conquests created the world's first empire.

Who is King Sargon?

300

This revolutionary change took place during the Neolithic Age.

What is farming?

300

Person or persons who move from place to place regularly.

Who are nomads?

300

Greek meaning for "land between the rivers".

What is Mesopotamia?

300

Babylon was located on the major trade route between this Gulf and this Sea.

What is the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea?

300

The 6th King of Babylon who is best know for his Code of Laws.

Who is Hammurabi?

400

These were the most important technologies used by the Paleolithic people.

What are tools?

400

People who hunt and search for evidence of human settlements.

Who are archeologist?

400

Early complex societies that had organized governments, culture, and writing.

What are city-states?

400

Hammurabi wanted to control this river because it provided water Babylon's farms.

What is the Euphrates River?

400

The last of the great kings of Assyria who best known for his vast library at Nineveh.

Who is Ashurbanipal?

500

People had to adapt to this in the early Stone age.

What is environment?

500

Preserved remains of plants and animals.

What are fossils?

500

Sumerians who learned how to write often became __________.

What is a scribe?

500

The __________ in Babylon are known as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

What are the Hanging Gardens?

500

Sumerian King who wished to become immortal and also had super human strength?

Who is Gilgamesh?

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