Paleolithic Age
Neolithic Revolution
Geography
Innovations
Potpourri
100
A paleolithic person's way of representing themselves artistically or recording events.
What is cave painting?
100
The use of animals as pack animals or for food production.
What is domestication?
100
The two rivers Mesopotamia is located between.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
100
The first system of writing developed by the Sumerians.
What is cuneiform?
100
The material Mesopotamians wrote on because it was the most abundant resource in the area.
What is clay?
200
How Paleolithic people communicated with one another.
What is sign language?
200
This was a result of the Neolithic Revolution
What is agriculture, permanent settlements, and specialization?
200
The two word term for the area with rich soil that was good for farming.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
200
The device attached to vehicles in order to allow movement.
What is the wheel?
200
A small, self-governed region, such as Ur, Uruk, and Sumer.
What is a city-state?
300
The two methods Paleolithic people used to get the resources they needed.
What is hunting and gathering?
300
The population increased because agriculture provided this.
What is a surplus of food?
300
This was the first civilization to develop in Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer?
300
The system developed to transport water from a body of water to crops.
What is irrigation?
300
What people did in order to get the resources they did not have.
What is trade?
400
The movie family who represent Paleolithic people.
Who are The Croods?
400
This advancement allowed people to settle in one place because they were able to produce their own food.
What is agriculture?
400
The large area ruled by Sargon that included all of Mesopotamia.
What is the Akkadian Empire?
400
The first written law, consisting of 282 rules.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
400
The temple at the center of each city-state.
What is a ziggurat?
500
The name assigned to a group of people who move around from place to place, following a food source, and living in temporary settlements.
What is nomadic?
500
The advancement that occurred because people had free time to learn new skills.
What is specialization?
500
The continent on which Mesopotamia was located.
What is Asia.
500
A material made of copper and other metals, used to make weapons and tools.
What is bronze?
500
Where the highest class would live in the city-state.
What is close to the Ziggurat?
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