Paleolithic
Neolithic
Mesopotamia
Vocabulary
Random
100
The Paleolithic people found food by doing these two things.
What is hunting and gathering?
100
This is what Neolithic means.
What is New Stone Age?
100
These are the two rivers of the Mesopotamian civilization.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
100
This means Old Stone Age.
What is Paleolithic?
100
The people of Sumer were divided into this many social classes.
What is three?
200
The Paleolithic people painted pictures on these.
What are cave walls?
200
This is the taming of living things for human use.
What is domestication?
200
This was a region in southern Mesopotamia that developed by 3000 BC.
What is Sumer?
200
This word means tools or methods to help humans perform tasks.
What is technology?
200
These people were part of the upper social class in Sumer.
What are kings, priests, and government officials?
300
Because they constantly moved around, the Paleolithic people were known as this.
What are nomads?
300
This is a person who is a skilled worker that makes items like metal products, cloth, or pottery.
What is an artisan?
300
This was the name of the writing system developed by the Sumerians.
What is cuneiform?
300
This means to move from place to place.
What is migrate?
300
Beginning in 1792 BC, this man became king of Babylon.
Who was Hammurabi?
400
The Paleolithic people traveled in groups called this.
What are bands?
400
The Neolithic time period began because this change occurred.
What is the farming revolution?
400
The Sumerians built religious temples called this.
What is a ziggurat?
400
This is the growing of plants and raising of animals.
What is agriculture?
400
The king of Babylon as of 1792 BC was the first to create a written form of this.
What is a code of laws?
500
The discovery of fire changed the lives of the Paleolithic people. Name two ways this change impacted them.
What are allowed them to stay warm and survive the Ice Ages, cook their food, and fend off wild animals?
500
This is to break up work among different people to get more work done.
What is specialization?
500
Name at least two advancements of the Sumerians.
What are the plow, wagon wheel, sailboat, and calendar?
500
This is the growing of plants and the raising of animals.
What is agriculture?
500
Because Mesopotamia was located in a curving strip of good farmland, it was also called this.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
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