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CHAPTER 1
Ancient Places and Celebrities
Vocabulary
100
Who can we thank for our 7-day week?
Chaldeans
100
These early humans adapted to the environment by making tools and clothes and by using fire.
Paleolithic
100
These early humans adapted to the environment by making tools and clothes and by using fire.
Paleolithic
100
Babylonian king who conquered cities to the north and south and created the Babylonian Empire.
Hammurabi
100
These are people who study and write about the human past.
Historians
200
This revolutionary change took place during the Neolithic Age
Farming
200
What did the Hittites teach the Assyrians that helped make it's army strong?
How to make IRON strong
200
Babylon became rich from trade because it was located on a major trade route between the Mediterranean Sea and what other body of water?
Persian Gulf
200
Means: "The land between rivers"
Mesapotamia
200
These are tools and methods to help humans perform tasks.
Technology
300
Women in this civilization could buy and sell property and run businesses.
Sumer
300
These people study artifacts and fossils to help them understand the past
Archaeologists
300
True or False: Assyrian kings divided their empire into political districts called provinces.
True
300
King of the Akkadians
Sargon
300
This consists of hundreds of wedge-shaped marks cut into damp clay tablets with a sharp-ended reed.
Cuneiform
400
This is a Sumerian temple built to honor the chief god.
Ziggurat
400
This person kept records in cuneiform.
Scribe
400
Mixing copper and tin makes what metal?
Bronze
400
This was visible from any point in Babylon. It was an immense staircase of greenery at the king's palace.
Hanging Gardens
400
Groups of traveling merchants
Caravan
500
The plow, the sailboat, and the wheel are all inventions of which people?
Sumerian
500
Who rebelled against the Assyrians?
Chaldeans
500
Conflicts weakened these peoples and they became vulnerable to attacks by outsiders.
Sumerians
500
King of the Chaldeans
Nebuchadnezzar
500
It has its own government and is not part of any larger unit.
City-state
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