What are two well-known Neolithic farming communities?
100
People who study fossils and artifacts to learn about pre-historic man.
Who are archaeologists?
100
The Mediterranean Sea
What is the sea located to the west of Mesopotamia and its name means "in the middle if the land"?
100
Skilled people who made metal products, cloth, or pottery.
Who are artisans?
200
These people survived because tamed fire.
Who were the Paleolithic people?
200
The first known writing developed during the Neolithic Era.
What is cuneiform?
200
Who are anthropologists?
What are people who study how societies develop and how people relate to one another called?
200
The land between the rivers.
What is the meaning of the term Mesopotamia ?
200
Who was Hammurabi?
He wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life.
300
The most important technological advances of early man to help him over come his environment.
What were tools?
300
To domesticate.
What is the process called by which people tame and control the growth of plants and animals for their own use?
300
He was the first man to rule over and unite the first empire in Mesopotamia called the Akkadians.
Who was Sargon?
300
This city was the center of the Chaldean Empire.
What was Babylon?
300
The Assyrians learned a new metalworking technique from these people making iron stronger for weapons.
Who were the Hittite?
400
Who are nomads?
These people move from place to place in search of food.
400
The process Through which people channel water using ditches and canals to bring water to their plants
What is irrigation?
400
The people who rebelled against the Assyrian Empire and captured Nineveh. Soon after the Assyrian Empire crumbled.
Who are the Chaldeans?
400
This is the climate of Mesopotamia.
What is hot and dry?
400
These people made great advances in sciences and mathematics. They also developed a number system based on 60. We can thank them for the 60 second minute and the 360° circle.
Who were the Sumerians?
500
This revolutionary change took place and ended e Paleolithic era and began the Neolithic era.
What is farming?
500
A Neolithic temple that Mesopotamian people in cities like Ur and Babylon built to honor and worship their gods.
What is a ziggurat?
500
A long poem written about heroes. The first was written in Mesopotamia.
What is an epic?
500
The Hanging Gardens in Babylon were built by this king who wanted to please his wife. It is now one of the Wonders of the Ancient World.