The First Humans
This is the "profession" of the earliest humans.
What are hunter-gatherers?
These are the two rivers the fertile crescent was between.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
These people are in part responsible for the Alphabet we use today.
Who are the Phonecians?
This is one of the first written law codes.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
These people, with an army nicknamed, "The Immortals", took over the Mesopotamian region in 537 BCE.
Who are the Persians?
This is where humans originated.
What is Africa?
This is the religious practice of worshipping more than one god.
What is Polytheism?
Because farming was so limited, the Phoenicians made their living this was instead.
What is trading?
The people of this religion were exiled from the Babylonian empire.
Who are the Jews?
This ruler took the throne by force, and built road systems through the Empire- which he expanded from modern day Pakistan to Egypt.
Who is Darius?
This is what humans are classified as.
What are homosapiens?
This is the first written language.
What is cunieform?
These are the developments that the Phoenicians set up in other places that allowed them to spread their empire.
What are colonies?
This man led the recreation of the Babylonian Empire, and was the King to exile the Jewish people.
Who is King Nebachadnezzar?
This "great" man led the Persian takeover.
Who was Cyrus the great?
This is the earliest form of art found made by humans.
What are Cave Paintings?
This is the practice of building pipes to guide water to crops.
What is irrigation?
This is who ruled the city-states of Phonecia.
Who are priest-kings?
This is the Ancient Wonder of the World that was in Babylon.
What are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
This system of payment to a ruler is similar to taxes today.
What is tribute?
This was the first ever city.
What is Uruk?
This is the pyramid like structure that Sumerians used as a temple.
WHat is a Zigguraut?
This is the color that the Phoenicians made dye of out of sea snails, to trade for other goods.
What is purple?
This is how many laws were in the Code of Hammurabi.
What is 282?
This system of gold coins with a rulers face on them worked as money for the ancient people.
What is currency?