Early Humans
The Stone Age
Early Sumerians
Characteristics of Civilization
Four Empires
100
Australopithecus Afarensis was the first of these.
What is the name of the earliest known hominid (from our textbook)?
100
The first was Paleolithic Age and the second was the Neolithic Age.
What is the two periods of the Stone Age.
100
It means "the land between the two rivers."
What is the Greek word for Mesopotamia?
100
The two inventions which helped Sumerians create a stable food supply.
What are the plow and the irrigation system?
100
They were known for being the first empire, let by a king named Sargon.
What is the Akkadian Empire known for?
200
A person who studies natural and human made features such as roads.
What is a geographer?
200
It created a stable food supply and allowed them to live in settlements.
What is the domestication of animals and farming, or agriculture.
200
The name for small, independent countries with a ruler and farmland to provide food.
What is a city-state?
200
A complex organization of a civilization which shows evidence of an upper class, a common class and a lower class of slaves.
What is the social structure?
200
These were three-dimensional relief sculptures carved in stone and used to celebrate the achievements of the kings.
What is a stele?
300
Neanderthals were the first to show this as evidenced by their burial mounds.
What is the first hominid to show evidence of caring for each other or a sense of community?
300
This made life more comfortable, gave them protection from weather and animals, and allowed them to live in larger communities.
What is the importance of the development of permanent shelters?
300
They built levees, canals, dams and reservoirs.
What is the solution to the problem of Sumerians controlling their water supply?
300
Their job was to enforce laws, collect taxes, maintain irrigation systems and build temples.
What is responsibility of the Sumerian king?
300
He is known for his code of laws, the first code of laws to apply to everyone.
What is King Hammurabi known for?
400
Even though they were simple, Handy man or Homo Habilis was the first to make them.
What is the first hominid to make stone tools?
400
With a stable food supply, people were able to develop and specialize in these.
What is a specialized skill or job?
400
They did this to protect their cities from their neighbors during attacks.
What is reason why Sumerians began to build strong walls and moats around their cities?
400
An ancient Mesopotamian temple tower built with a special temple at the top for their gods.
What is a ziggurat?
400
First was the Akkadian, then Babylonian, Assyrian and, finally, Neo-Babylonian.
What is the name and order of the empires of Mesopotamia?
500
Homo erectus
What is the first hominid to walk upright?
500
It allowed people to make use of more resources and brought them into contact with people from distant places.
What is the result of trade?
500
The Sumerians had to work together to solve their problems which led to them living in larger communities.
What is the reason for small farming villages becoming large city-states?
500
Writing based on an earlier, simpler form of writing that used pictographs and used wedge-shaped characters.
What is cuneiform?
500
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
What is the name of one of the great wonders of the Ancient World built by Nebuchadrezzar?
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