Early humans
Mesopotamia
First Empires
Geography
People & Places
100
What are objects made by humans long ago?
Artifacts
100
What is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
100
Chaldean king who built the Hanging Gardens to please his wife
Nebuchadnezzar?
100
What is the world's longest river?
The Nile
100
What is the writing system created by the Sumerians?
Cuneiform
200
What is known as 'The Old Stone Age'?
Paleolithic
200
What is a long poem that tells the story of a hero?
Epic
200
Who developed a way of making iron strong enough to use for weapons?
Hittites
200
What is building dams, channels, walls, and ditches to bring water to crops?
irrigation
200
He wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life?i
Hammurab
300
What is one of the oldest known cities?
Jericho
300
What is the 'cradle of civilization'?
Mesopotamia
300
A group of many different lands under one ruler?
What is an Empire
300
What is a time of extreme cold when great sheets of ice covered parts of the earth?
Ice Age
300
What is the name for peole who study artifacts and look for fossils?
Achaeologists
400
What is taming an animal or plant for use by humans called?
Domestication
400
What is a Sumerian building material?
Brick
400
an artificial means of bringing water to crops called?
What is irrigation
400
Where did the first civilizations develop because the conditions for farming were good?
in river valleys
400
What is the name of a well known neolithic community that was located in present day Turkey?
Caytal huyuk
500
What group learned to make and control fire?
Who is Paleolithic man?
500
skilled workers who made metal products, cloth, or pottery were called?
artisans
500
They developed a way of making iron stronger.
The Hittites
500
Mesopotamia was between which 2 rivers?
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
500
The region that formed in southern Mesopotamia around 3,000 B.C. known as?
Sumer
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