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.
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?
According to the video, this unique quality in wheat made it a valuable resource at the end of the Paleolithic Age.
What is not decay
A collection of written laws and rules created by King Hammurabi
What is the Code of Laws?
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?
A wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks
What is a levee?
The business of buying and selling or exchanging items.
What is trade
The king and leader of the Akkadian Empire
Who was King Sargon?
An expert who studies and creates maps of Earth’s natural and human made features.
What is Geographer?
Grain was a very “unique” food for the Natufians in this very important way
What is it did not decay?
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 Agriculture
A military blockade and attack on a city to force it to surrender
What is a siege?
Before written history.
Who is Prehistoric?
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
The 4 main empires of Mesopotamia
What were Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian, and Neo-Babylonian?