Hunter-Gatherers
Complex Villages
Irrigation
Writing
Religion
100
This is the reason why humans were able to access lands that were previously frozen.
What is the melting of the ice glaciers?
100
This is a disadvantage of living in a village.
What are plentiful food or protection from attackers?
100
This refers to the watering of crops.
What is irrigation?
100
These people kept official business records?
What is a scribe?
100
The belief in many gods and goddesses
What is polytheism?
200
These were the very first types of tools early humans used.
What are sticks or stones?
200
This is an advantage of living in a village.
What are plenty of food and protection from invaders?
200
This is the fine, rich soil deposited by flooding rivers.
What is silt?
200
This is the reason why Sumerians developed the first system of writing.
What is to keep business records?
200
This was the center of city life.
What is a ziggurat?
300
Early humans moved around to follow these.
What are animals or seasonal plants?
300
This refers to having more than you need to survive.
What is surplus?
300
This brought river water to the fields, which watered the crops.
What are canals?
300
The is the first system of writing, which used a system of symbols.
What is a pictograph?
300
This is the reason why Sumerians pleased their gods.
What is to protect people from danger, such as drought, floods, and invasions.
400
Humans used cave paintings to honor this.
What is the spirit of an animal killed for food?
400
This is the skill in one type of work.
What is specialization?
400
Name the two rivers in Mesopotamia.
What are the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers?
400
This is a form of wedge-shaped writing.
What is cuneiform?
400
People made offerings to these people.
What is a priest?
500
This refers to humans tending to plants and raising animals.
What is domestication?
500
These people were a part of the Sumerian upper class.
What are kings and priests?
500
The land between two rivers
What is Mesopotamia
500
Scribes were important because they left behind these things.
What are records of daily life?
500
Name the four main Sumerian gods.
What are wind, sky, water, foothills?
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