Vocabulary
Creating new tools and new ways of doing work
Technology
Area whose name means "between two rivers"
Mesopotamia
Egypt was built along what river?
The Nile River
Sumerians, Egyptians, and Olmecs all created these to track when to plant or harvest crops
Calendars
To send or receive information
Communicate
Advanced, organized societies
Civilizations
Better farming techniques led to having more food than needed to survive. This extra food is called what?
Surplus
The name of the tombs where Egyptians buried their dead
The Pyramids
The practice of moving or bringing water to crops
Irrigation
This is thought to be the earliest writing tool
The Stylus
Large towns that were often surrounded by walls
Cities
Mesopotamia was located in what is this modern day country
Iraq
Nubians traded what metal for goods from all over Africa?
Gold
Ancient farmers created this tool to break up the soil
The Plow
The picture-based writing developed by the Sumerians
Cuneiform
How people travel and move goods from place to place
Transportation
This was the very first civilization in Mesopotamia
Sumer
Which civilization built the first pyramids in the Americas?
The Olmecs
This tool for cutting down crops was firwt used in Mesopotamia
The Sickle
The earliest written language was used mostly for what?
Keeping a record of property and transactions
Granaries
This was the largest city in the Indus River Valley
Mohenjo Daro
The Chavin people in the high Andes raised what animal as livestock?
Llamas
This civilization invented the wheel around 3500 B.C.E
The Sumerians
The Egyptians developed this writing system where symbols could also represent sounds
Hieroglyphics