Paleolithic Times
Neolithic Times
Mesopotamia
First Empires
Vocabulary
100
Times of extreme cold when great sheets of ice covered parts of the earth.
What is Ice Ages
100
Mixed with copper and this to make bronze
What is tin
100
Sumerian building material
What is mud brick
100
First large army to use iron weapons
What is Assyrians
100
A group of many different lands under one ruler
What is empire
200
Things made by humans long ago
What are artifacts
200
Taming an animal or plant for use by humans
What is domestication
200
Cradle of Civilization
What is Mesopotamia
200
People who built a great army to protect their lands from invasion
What is Assyrians
200
Building dams, channels, walls, and ditches to bring water to crops
What is irrigation
300
People who regularly move from place to place
What are nomads
300
One of the oldest known cities
What is Jericho
300
Hero of an epic who travels around the world performing great deeds
Who is Gilgamesh
300
Developed a way of making iron strong enough to use for weapons
Who are Hittites
300
Things made by humans long ago
What is an artifact
400
Studies artifacts and fossils
What is archaeologist
400
New Stone Age
What is Neolithic
400
Climate
What is hot and dry
400
Chaldean king who built the Hanging Gardens to please his wife
Who is Nebuchadnezzar
400
Sumerian writing
What is Cuneiform
500
Tools and methods to help humans perform tasks
What is technology
500
One of the oldest known cities in present-day Turkey
What is Catal Huyuk
500
Grand temple with a shrine at the top, like a giant square wedding cake
What is ziggurat
500
People who study heavenly bodies
Who are astronomers
500
Complex societies
What is civilizations
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