This term refers to all humans and their ancestors
What is Hominids?
100
In addition to developing agriculture, humans began this process with animals.
What is domestication?
100
Mesopotamia refers to the land between these two rivers.
What is Tigris and Euphrates?
100
Egypt was ruled by these individuals, believed to be both kings and gods.
What are Pharaohs?
100
The Hebrews were the first people in the eastern Mediterranean to practice this type of religion, the belief in only one god.
What is monotheism?
200
This time period, also called the "Old Stone Age," lasted from 2.5 mya to 8000 BCE.
What is the Paleolithic period?
200
This is the name given to the time period when agriculture began.
What is the Neolithic (Revolution)?
200
Mesopotamian farmers began using tools made from this alloy of copper and tin.
What is bronze?
200
This writing system of ancient Egypt consisted of both pictoral and phonetic symbols.
What are heiroglyphs?
200
This civilization, a frequent rival of the Egyptians, had military advantages due to their use of chariots and this metal, which is much stronger than bronze.
What is Hittites? What is iron?
300
This discovery allowed early humans to eat more meat, which resulted in a larger brain size.
What is fire?
300
This defines the specialization of labor in settled agricultural societies.
What is social hierarchy (social stratification, social classes)?
300
This form of wedge-shaped writing emerged in Sumer and later became the phonetic alphabet of Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
300
Egyptians developed this convenient but perishable writing material made from a reed that grew along the Nile.
What is papyrus?
300
Class of people who were needed to protect and keep accounts of agricultural yields.
What are scribes.
400
This is a group of people who like agriculturalists, tended to be more stratified than hunger-gatherers. They were an important group for transferring technological change as they interacted with settled populations
What are pastoralists?
400
This invention, which represents a major advance in agriculture, allowed for the preparation of fields by turning over the upper layer of soil.
What is the plow?
400
This Babylonian king created a famous code of laws that recognized three different social groups and included harsh punishments.
Who was Hammurabi?
400
This kingdom on the Nile had cities but was less prosperous and threatened the Egyptians. However, they were an influential trading partner.
What is Nubia?
400
Mesopotamia and Egypt practiced this form of succession, in which the king or pharaoh was suceeded by their son.
What is patriarchal succession?
500
The earliest economic structures focused on small ________ groups of hunting/fishing bands which were made up of smaller families.
What is kinship?
500
This feature is defined by the transformation agriculture had on human societies by having a more reliable and abundant food supply.
What is an increased population and civilization?
500
Mesopotamians built these large step pyramids with shrines to their gods at the top.
What are ziggurats?
500
Name 4 different objects/things that were buried with pharaohs.
What is gold, precious stones, servants, paintings, textiles. (other answers accepted if they apply)
500
What was the benefit of living within a river valley?
What is fertile soil and water.
(other answers accepted)