Vocabulary
Who was responsible for writing in ancient times?
scribes
What was the first civilization established in Mesopotamia?
Sumer
The two main rivers in Mesopotamia?
Tigris and Euphrates
Who invented the first wheel and axle?
Sumer
The word for farming
agricultrue
The practice of believing in more than one god.
polytheism
What was the civilization that used the sea as a resource?
Phoenicia
The very arable land stretching from the Nile to the Persian Gulf.
Fertile Crescent
The training of plants and animals
domestication
The spread of an idea-- war. trade. oral language
diffusion
Having extra of a product to trade or keep as a supply.
surplus
The Code of Hammurabi was created here.
Babylon
The sea used by the Phoenicians for trade.
Mediterranean Sea
These were the first consistent set of laws.
Code of Hammurabi
The foundation of society
infrastructure
What is the way people live?
culture
The civilization that was responsible for creating the first library.
Assyria
What is the land between the two rivers known as?
Mesopotamia
The type of trees that were used to create the Phoenician boats.
cedar trees
Experiencing no food in an area-- land can not grow food at all
famine
What are places where new ideas start?
culture hearth
Which civilization was exiled from their home in Canaan?
Israelites
The three major bodies of water that surround the Fertile Crescent and Mesopotamia that are not rivers.
Persian Gulf, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea
The place where the first cuneiform tablets were held. The reason we know so much about ancient cultures.
The library of Nineveh
A powerful area that spreads out and takes over other areas for land and resources.
colonization