Mesopotamia and Sumer
The First People
The Beginning of Agriculture
The Hebrews and Judaism
The Persian Empire
100
the first known civilization.
What is Mesopotamia?
100
Society's knowledge, art, beliefs, customs, and value.
What is Culture?
100
The selective growing or breeding of plants and animals to make the m more useful.
What is Domestication?
100
Sacred text of Judaism.
What is Torah?
100
Two tribes of people that lived in what today is called Iran.
What is Medes and Persians?
200
fertile soil region that lise between two rivers.
What is Fertile cresent?
200
Early humanlike beings.
What is a Hominid?
200
When peole learned to use metal, started around 3000 B. C.
What is Bronze Age?
200
Man who led the Hebrews out of captivity from Egypt.
What is Moses?
200
Led Persian uprising against the Medes.
Who was Cyrus the Great?
300
The first people in Mesopotamia
What is Sumerians?
300
Old Stone Age 2.5 million-10,000 years ago.
What is Paleolithic Era?
300
Shift to farming from hunting and gathering.
What is Neolithic Revolution?
300
The land Jews claim God led them to and gave them.
What is Promised land?
300
The next great Persian king. established the 10,000 immortals.
Who was Darius 1?
400
A pyramid shaped structure.
What is Ziggurats?
400
The belief that all things in nature have spirits.
What is Animism?
400
Monuments out of huge stones for burial or spiritual purpose.
What is Megaliths?
400
Patriarch of the Hebrews.
What is Abraham?
400
Started a new religion, Zoroastrianism.
What is Zoroaster?
500
Each city was its own political unit and had its own government.
What is City States?
500
Appeared in AFrica 4-5 Million years ago, stood upright, walked on 2 legs, brain was 1/3 size of modern human. "Southern Ape"
What is Australopithecine?
500
New Stone Age 8000-3000 B. C.
What is Neolithic Era?
500
Ancestral father.
What is Patriarch?
500
The belief the world is controlled by two opposing forces, good and evil.
What is Dualism?
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