Chapter 1
An expert who studies the past by examining objects that people have left behind.
What is an archeologist?
The later part of the stone age called the New Stone Age, and lasted from about 8000 BC to 3000 BC.
What is Neolithic Age?
The name for the geographic area located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
Something that can be used to fulfill a need in a civilization
What are resources
A large territory in which several groups of people are ruled by a single leader or government
What is an Empire?
An expert who studies and records the past.
What is Historian?
An arc-shaped region in Southwest Asia, with rich soil.
What is Fertile Crescent?
An early city that was like a small, independent country with its own laws and government
What is a city state?
What does B.C.E. stand for
Before the Common Era
A collection of written laws and rules created by King Hammurabi
What is Hammarubi's Code?
An object made or used by people of the past.
What is artifact?
The First Period of the Stone Age, called the Old Stone Age from about 2 million years ago to around 8000 BC.
What is Paleolithic Age?
What is a dam?
The business of buying and selling or exchanging items.
What is trade
This King went on an adventure after he called a goddess a donkey face
Who was Gilgamesh
The study of Earth’s natural and human made features.
What is Geography?
What stared the Neolithic Revolution
What is farming
An area in southern Mesopotamia, where cities first appeared
What is Sumer?
What the Stone Age people learned about that allowed them to stay in a permanent home and not travel for food.
What is farming and irrigation
Mountains are created by what type of tectonic movement
What is colliding
What does A.D. mean?
Anno Domini, The Year of Our Lord
One who moves from place to place with no permanent home.
What is Nomad?
The two largest rivers in Southwest Asia that flow from the mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
In the Neolithic age, creating communities and jobs led to this way of exchanging goods and services
What is Trade
Were the people in Mesopotamia monotheistic or polytheistic
What is polytheistic