Vocabulary
People who study and write about the human past.
historian
People settled down & stopped being nomads; led to settlement of large communities and larger population.
Farming Revolution
King of the Akkadians he conquered Mesopotamia in 2340 B.C..
Sargon
People who hunted animals and gathered food for their dietary needs.
hunter-gatherers
Arose along river valleys because of good farming conditions, fish and freshwater, and easy to travel and trade
First Civilizations
People who hunt for artifacts buried in the ground.
the earliest known village (between Israel and Jordan) established around 8000 BC
Jericho
Name of a Babylonian King famous for creating a law code for all areas of life
Hammurabi
People who regularly move from place to place; no permanent home.
Nomads
Complex societies, cities, with organized government, and shared culture.
Civilization
Something such as pottery, tools or weapons that are buried in the ground.
Artifact
The arc of land where Mesopotamia developed; good for farming
Fertile Crescent
King of the Chaldean, rebuilt Babylon into a magnificent city.
Nebuchadnezzar
Fire was important for...
Providing light, warmth, & cooking/food
A group of city-states or territories controlled by one ruler.
Empire
Tools and methods to help humans preform tasks.
Technology
Also known as the Fertile Crescent, land between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers. Means "land between the rivers."
Mesopotamia
Capital City of the Assyrian Empire.
Nineveh
Neolithic people used metal to make tools
Iron
A pyramid-shaped temple with a flat top; used for storing goods and worshiping the gods.
Ziggurat
Means "Old Stone Age"
Paleolithic
Rivers on either side of Mesopotamia
Tigris and Euphrates
A stone-aged man found frozen in the Italian Alps.
Otzi
A way of supplying water to an area of land; farmers built walls, waterways and ditches to bring water to their fields.
Irrigation
Believing in many gods
Polytheistic