Paleolithic Age
Neolithic Age
Mesopotamia
Vocabulary
Mixed
100
Traces of plants or animals that have been preserved in rock.
What are fossils?
100
The development of different kinds of jobs.
What is specialization?
100
The two rivers surrounding Mesopotamia.
What is Tigris and Euphrates?
100
Also known as the "Old Stone Age"
What is the Paleolithic Age?
100
The development of a language, art, and invention of tools to survive, began in this time period.
What is the Paleolithic Age?
200
The Stone Age people had to learn to ___________ to their environment in order to survive.
What is adapt?
200
The revolution that took place in this time period.
What is the Farming Revolution?
200
This is how farmers controlled water problems to ensure that they could grow plenty of food.
What is irrigation?
200
"The Cradle of Civlizations" and "The Land Between Two Rivers"
What is Mesopotamia?
200
He wrote the first code of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
300
Paleolithic people learned to tame this. It changed their lives and allowed them to survive the extreme cold.
What is fire?
300
Hunters/Gatherers or farmers?
What is farmers?
300
The Sumerian form of writing.
What is cuneiform?
300
a group of many different lands under one ruler.
What is an empire?
300
The King of the Babylonian Empire.
Who is Hammurabi?
400
The period of extreme cold.
What is The Ice Age?
400
One of the earliest known communities in the Neolithic Age.
What is Jericho or Catal Hoyuk?
400
Kings and Priests made up this part of the class system (upper, middle, or lower)
What is Upper Class?
400
People who hunt for evidence buried in the ground.
What is an archaeologist?
400
The Age when people started farming, building communities, producing goods, and trading.
What is the Neolithic Age or New Stone Age?
500
The way Paleolithic people obtained their food.
What is hunting and gathering?
500
The time period that the Neolithic Age occurred.
What is 8000 B.C. to 4000 B.C.?
500
Name an invention during this time period.
What is a irrigation, a wagon wheel, cuneiform, clock, calendar, hour/minutes, sailboat, plow, etc.
500
The world's oldest known story that comes from Sumer. It's a long poem about a hero.
What is The Epic of Gilgamesh?
500
The name of the Akkadian King who conquered all of Mesopotamia in 2340 B.C.
Who is Sargon?
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