Hunter-Gatherers
Agricultural Revolution
The Sumerians
Mesopotamian Empires
Vocabulary
100
This is the "social studies" word for the Old Stone Age.
What is paleolithic?
100
Tame.
What is domesticate?
100
Of the following, which civilization was NOT located in Mesopotamia? Sumer, Babylonia, Egypt, Assyria
What is Egypt?
100
This is how the Assyrian army took over Mesopotamia.
What is they used iron tools?
100
A person who moves from place to place to survive.
What is a nomad?
200
This is the order of Hunter-Gatherer time periods from oldest to newest.
What are Paleolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Ages?
200
During the Neolithic Age, different jobs began to develop which was called this.
What is specialization?
200
This is a place where people worship.
What is a shrine?
200
This is a payment made to a ruler as a sign of surrender.
What is a tribute?
200
This is a group of merchants traveling together for protection, usually with a train of camels.
What is a caravan?
300
TRUE or FALSE: people raised animals for food during the Paleolithic Age.
What is FALSE?
300
These were the most dominant new technologies during the Bronze Age.
What are bronze and written language?
300
These technologies were developed in Sumer.
What are cuneiform and the wheel?
300
This is the name of the first set of laws fairly set down by an emperor.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
300
This is rich soil.
What is silt?
400
This is how Paleolithic people obtained food.
What is they had to follow food sources for survival?
400
This is an amount left over after a need has been met.
What is surplus?
400
This was the first type of written language.
What is cunieform?
400
This is why the empire of Sargon was significant.
What is it was the first known empire?
400
This is a government led by a king or a queen.
What is a monarchy?
500
This is a long period of extreme cold on Earth.
What is an Ice Age?
500
This is how new technologies affected people in the Neolithic Age.
What is people became healthier once they had better food supplies?
500
This is a structure developed by the Sumerians.
What is a ziggurat?
500
This is what happened to the Chaldean Empire.
What is it grew wealthy from trade caravans?
500
This is a belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
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