Vocabulary
Mesopotamia
Inventions
Kings & Heroes
Miscellaneous
100
group of lands under one ruler
What is empire
100
New Stone Age, when farming revolution occurred
What is Neolithic
100
three Sumerian inventions
What is wagon wheel, plow, and sailboat
100
The first kings were probably this type of heroes
Who are war heroes
100
people who study and write about the human past
Who are historians
200
skilled workers
What is artisan
200
Old Stone Age, when stone tools were used and they hunted and gathered for food
What is Paleolithic
200
Sumerian writing system
What is cuneiform
200
He wrote a legal code that covered most areas of life
Who is Hammurabi
200
They study artifacts and fossils to help understand the past
Who are archaeologists
300
taming an animal or plant for use by humans
What is domestication
300
city with its own government and its surrounding lands
What is city-state
300
mixture of copper and tin
What is bronze
300
the hero of an epic who travels around the world performing great deeds
Who is Gilgamesh
300
helped spread ideas around the world
What is trade
400
group of traveling merchants
What is caravan
400
cradle of civilization
What is Mesopotamia, Fertile Crescent, Tigris & Euphrates River Valley
400
most important technologies used by Paleolithic people
What are tools
400
King of the Akkadians that conquered all of Mesopotamia
Who is Sargon
400
Sumerians built the name of this temple to honor their chief god
What is ziggurat
500
weapon, tool, or other item made by humans
What is artifact
500
man-made way of watering crops
What is irrigation
500
revolutionary change that took place during the Neolithic Age
What is farming
500
In ancient Sumer, they ran the government
Who are kings
500
one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
What is Hanging Gardens of Babylon
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