Learning about the past
What is one tool historians use to learn about the past?
Written records
Artifacts
Oral Traditions
What is one way that hunter-gathers used animals
Food
Shelter
Clothing
Tools
What discovery allowed humans to stop following animals and settle in one place?
Farming
The Fertile Cresent is also called:
Mesopotamia
The first city of Mesopotamia
Sumer
Give an example of a primary source
Diary
Newspaper
Picture
Fossil
Etc
What is a community without permanent homes who regularly move
Nomads
What is the process of taming an animal or plant for human use?
Domestication
What two rivers ran through Mesopotamia?
Tigris and Euphrates
The 2 great empires of Mesopotamia
Babylon and Assyria
Is a textbook a primary or seconday source?
Secondary
The mummy of a 5,000 year old man with an arrow in his shoulder.
Otzi the iceman
When the supply of food is more than people need to just feed themselves.
Food surplus
A physical feature that protects or hinders travel through or over.
Natural Barrier
Ruler who created the first written code of laws
Hammurabi
What is an immediate, first-hand accounts of a topic, from people who had a direct connection with it.
Primary Source
List 4 things found on Otzi the Iceman
Arrow
Spear
Hat/shoes/ jacket
Bag
A system in which laws, processes, and services are provided to a group of people to reduce disorder.
Government
Three reasons why the first civilizations settled near fresh water?
Drinking water
Water for farming
Hygeine
First written language ever discovered
Cunieform
what is a source is a document or recording that relates or discusses information originally presented elsewhere
Secondary Source
The time in which humans stopped following animals and began farming.
The neolithic revolution
List the steps of civilization in the correct order:
Farming
Food Surplus
Population increase
People develope cities
The cities create governments
People do jobs other than finding food
Civ is born
What benefit came when the rivers of Mesopotamia flooded?
Nutriant rich silt/ soil flooded into the farm land and was good for plants
List 5 achievements of the Mesopotamians
Astronomy
Math
Number System
Written Language
Laws
Battering ram
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