Vocabulary
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100
The development of different kinds of jobs
What is specialization?
100
The story of humans in the past
What is history?
100
These made for good farming
What are rivers?
100
Material that the weapons were made of that is stronger than copper or tin
What is iron?
100
The land that lies between the Tigris and Euphrates River
What is Mesopotamia?
200
A system of principles or rules; laws
What is a code?
200
People who regularly move without a fixed home
What are nomads?
200
Famers used these to control the rivers
What are damns and channels?
200
The capital of the Assyrian Empire
What is Ninevah?
200
A country that took over Mesopotamia
What is Assyria?
300
A group of traveling merchants
What is a caravan?
300
This discovery by the Paleolithic people scared away animals and cooked food.
What is fire?
300
The purpose of a ziggurat
What is to honor the gods?
300
These were built for Nebuchadnezzar's wife
What are the Hanging Gardens?
300
Traces of plants or animals that are preserved in rock.
What are fossils?
400
A scientist who learns about past human life by studying fossils and artifacts
What is an archaeologist?
400
Long periods of cold
What is an Ice Age?
400
Enslaved people were part of the Sumerian class
What is the lower class?
400
Assyria's cruel treatment led people to do this
What is rebel?
400
Sumerian writing system
What is cuneiform?
500
Babylonian king best known for his laws
Who is Hammurabi?
500
This led to an increase in the world's population
What is a surplus of food?
500
Hammurabi's laws were an important step in the development of this system
What is the justice system?
500
The Chaldeans studied this in order to understand the gods better
What is the sky?
500
The center of the Chaldean empire
What is Babylon?
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