Early Humans
Mesopotamia
First Empires
VIPs
Locations
100
Things that were made by humans long ago were called?
What is artifacts?
100
A long poem that tells the story of a hero is called what?
What is an epic?
100
Who developed a way of making iron strong enough to use for weapons?
Who were the Hittites?
100
The "New Stone Age" was the _____________ Period?
What is Neolithic?
100
One of the oldest known cities was ________________.
What is Jericho?
200
The "Old Stone Age" was called what?
What is the Paleolithic age?
200
A group of many different lands under one ruler is called what?
What is an empire?
200
The first large army to use iron weapons were the who?
Who were the Assyrians?
200
A hero of an epic who travels around the world performing great deeds is called what?
What is a Gilgamesh?
200
A grand temple with a shrine at the top, like a giant square wedding cake was called what?
What is a ziggurat?
300
Mesopotamia's climate was described as what?
What is hot and dry?
300
Building dams, channels, walls, and ditches to bring water to crops is called what?
What is irrigation?
300
The center of the Chaldean empire was at where?
Where is Babylon?
300
People who regularly move from place to place are called what?
What is nomads?
300
What was the site of one of the world's first libraries?
What was Nineveh?
400
Traces of plants and animals preserved in rock are called what?
What is fossils?
400
This was called the "cradle of civilization". What was it?
What is Mesopotamia?
400
A group of traveling merchants is called a what?
What is a caravan?
400
Record keepers who often went on to become government officials were called what?
What is scribes?
400
People who study heavenly bodies are called?
What is astronomers?
500
One of the oldest known cities, in present day Turkey is what?
What is Catal Huyuk?
500
Name a Sumerian building material.
What is a mud brick?
500
These people build a great army to protect their lands from invasion....who were they?
Who were the Assyrians?
500
Who was the Chaldean king who built the Hanging Gardens to please his wife?
Who was Nebuchadnezzar?
500
Who gets the money from the penalty described in the Code of Hammurabi that reads, "If any one be too lazy to keep his dam in proper condition, and does not so keep it; if then the dam break and all the fields be flooded, then shall he in whose dam the break occurred be sold for money, and the money shall replace the corn which he has caused to be ruined."
Who is the owners of the ruined corn?
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