Neolithic and Paleolithic Ages are both apart of what prehistoric period?
The Stone Age
100
Describe the location of the Mesopotamia.
Possible answers include:
1)Between Persian Guld and the Mediterranean Sea
2)Modern day Iraq
3)Around the Tigris and Euphrates River
100
In Sumeria, people at the top of the social hierarchy were?
Priests
100
The development of what, allowed people to not have to learn the same lessons over and over again,? Each generation was able to start over.
writing
200
What does surplus mean?
more of something than is needed
200
During both the Neolithic and Paleolithic Eras, people made their tools out what?
Stone
200
Mesopotamia is located in modern day ______?
Iraq
200
The _________ were known for their powers to conquer, inventing the battering ram and the scaling ladder.
Asseryians
200
Most early cities were surrounded by walls. Why?
for protection against invaders
300
A way of supplying water to an area of land
irrigation
300
In Neolithic times, jobs were?
specialized - they had more time to get good at the their jobs.
300
In early civilization, rivers provided rich soil, fresh water for irrigation and ________?
Transportaion
300
The ___________ were known as traders, becoming rich and powerful by trading, and didn’t spend much time working on their armies.
Phenicians
300
Zigguarts what? built by whom?
Temples, built by Sumerians
400
What is world's first civilization?
Sumer
400
In Paleolithic times communities consisted of?
20-60 nomadic people and most of the time was spent getting food.
400
_______ was a good place for civilization to begin because the land was full of rich soil, it provided water for irrigation, and protection from invaders?
Mesopotamia
400
Our alphabet is a decent from the alphabet of the?
Phoenicians
400
A vertical society is one in which there are clearly established what?
Social classes
500
What is the part of Southwest Asia were first civilizations began?
The Fertile Crescent
500
During the Paleolithic times, trade was _______, while in the Neolithic times, trade became ______?
rare,common
500
The word "Mesopotamia" is Greek for?
The land between the rivers
500
King Nebuchadnessar II, of ________ built the Hanging Gardens, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
Babylon
500
In order to build large buildings and dig complex irrigation systems, people needed _______________?