Chapter 1 Definitions
Chapter 2 Definitions
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Objects made a long time ago
What is an artifact
100
What are groups of people who have a complex and orgaized society within a culture?
What is a civilization.
100
From Asia, what direction did people migrate once they were in the Americas?
What is North to South.
100
What area is 'crescent shaped' and known for fertile land?
What is the Fertile Crescent or Mesopotamia.
100
Archeologists used the tools found from these people to help show the expansion and migration of early prehistoric peoples.
What is the Clovis people.
200
To tame
What is domestication
200
What system helped control when and how much water goes to crops?
What is an irrigation system.
200
What was the name of the frozen land bridge into the Americas?
What is Beringia.
200
The production of surplus food was a major step towards __________ in southern Mesopotamia.
What is the rise of civilization.
200
Who was the King who started to write down laws or codes in his Empire?
What is Hammurabi.
300
A period of time, which lasted about 3.5 million years ago to about 10,000 years ago, where little progress was made.
What is Old Stone Age.
300
A city that is an individual unit, complete with its own form of government and traditions.
What is a city-state.
300
Domestication allowed for the creation of an agricultural __________________, or additional food supply.
What is surplus.
300
What allowed people in Mesopotamia to met others, create a richer culture, and to spread Mesopotamian culture?
What is trade.
300
What was the major difference between the people of Sumer and Akkad?
What is their language.
400
When humans move.
What is migration.
400
Wedge-shaped writing
What is cuneiform.
400
What was one of the major factors that influenced the development of cultures in different areas?
What is geography.
400
Government was closely intertwined with _____________.
What is religion.
400
Which development, writing or cuneiform, was made up of over 700 symbols?
What is cuneiform.
500
During this time humans made great improvements in technology, especially in stoneworking
What is the New Stone Age.
500
The worship of many gods.
What is polytheism.
500
What object reveals the ways in which early people lived and hunted through images they depicted nearby to themselves?
What is prehistoric cave art.
500
Which group influenced the world through trade, the establishment of trading posts, and the creation of a written alphabet?
What is the Phoenicians.
500
What issue lead to the creation of irrigation systems in Mesopotamia?
What is the uncertainty of the Tigris and Euphrates and the lack of fertile land.
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