Prehistory
Geography
Bronze Age
Writing
The Akkadian Empire
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Prehistory begins with this event.
What is creation?
5
Mesopotamia lies between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
5
This handy-dandy practice allowed Bronze Age farmers to build cities on rivers––and improve their farming!
What is irrigation?
5
This terms is used to describe early systems of writing that are simple, literal and have limited use.
What is proto-writing?
5
Before the Akkadian Empire, Sumeria was organized politically into these units.
What are city-states?
6
These three "ages" are used to categorize the early development of history.
What are the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages?
6
This part of the Mediterranean Sea runs along the coast of modern-day Syria, Lebanon and Israel.
What is the Levantine Sea?
6
The Bronze Age arose after this important "event" that produced agriculture and pets.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
6
The name of this Mesopotamian writing system means "wedge-shaped" in Latin.
What is cuneiform?
6
This macho guy built the Akkadian Empire by defeating the kings of Uruk and Kish.
Who is Sargon the Great?
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Prehistory ends with what event?
What is the invention of writing?
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These three names refer to a peninsula on the eastern edge of Europe.
What are Turkey, Anatolia and Asia Minor?
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The technique of smelting (burning a pure metal out of an ore) may have been discovered thanks to this groovy new technology.
What is the pottery kiln?
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The name of this Egyptian writing system means "sacred signs" in Greek.
What are hieroglyphics?
7
The Akkadian Empire produced striking artifacts, including this device for accounting and signing purposes.
What are cylindrical seals?
8
This age begins in the 4th millennium and ends in 1200 B.C.
What is the Bronze Age?
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Greece, Croatia and North Macedonia are all part of this peninsula east of Italy.
What is the Balkan Peninsula?
8
Besides pottery and writing, the Bronze Age saw the invention of this ox-drawn technology––and the basic technology that made it possible!
What are the plow and the wheel?
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This device is transitional between pictograms and phonograms.
What is a rebus?
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Compiled in the Akkadian language, this text provides compelling evidence for the Biblical flood.
What is The Epic of Gilgamesh?
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When does the last "age" theoretically end?
What is 550 B.C.?
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This civilization arose in South and Central America.
What is the Olmec Civilization?
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This important economic practice means dividing work into specialized professions, like butchers, cobblers, soldiers.
What is Division of Labor?
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These symbols––like 7, & and #––represent concepts without representing sounds.
What are ideograms?
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These are the dates of the Akkadian Empire.
What are 2334 – 2154 B.C.?