Mesopotamia
What is History?
River Valley Civilizations
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
The two major rivers located within Mesopotamia
What is the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
100
Someone who writes about or studies history
Who is a historian?
100
Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Indus River Valley Civilization, and the Shang Dynasty all share this geographic feature
What is a river?
100
Natural or man-made characteristics of the Earth, such as land forms, bodies of water, or ecosystems?
What are geographic features?
100
All the members of a community or group.
What is society?
200
The writing system of Mesopotamia
What is Cuneiform?
200
Original documents and objects that were created during the time period being studied.
What are primary sources?
200
An early river valley civilization in China established on the Huang He (Yellow) River
What is the Shang Dynasty?
Or
What is Shang China?
200
This is a person who moves from one place to another following food sources.
Who is a nomad?
200
One who gets their food by hunting for it and collecting wild fruit, vegetables, and nuts.
What is a hunter-gatherer?
300
A steeped structure that served as a temple in Mesopotamia
What is a ziggurat?
300
An opinion or claim
What is a point of view?
300
One of the longest rivers in Asia, that flows from the Himalayan Mountains to the Arabian Sea.
What is the Indus River?
300
A family of rulers where the right to rule passes within the family
What is a dynasty?
300
A turning point in history that changed the way Paleolithic lived their lives. People shifted from hunting and gathering for food to agriculture, (starting in 10,000 BCE).
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
or
What is the Neolithic Era?
400
A law code created by the King of Babylonia around 1772 BCE
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
400
A sudden, radical or complete change
What is a revolution?
400
An early river valley civilization in North Africa established on the Nile River.
What is Ancient Egypt?
400
The watering of land by artificial or human means to foster plant growth.
What is irrigation?
400
The process of changing a wild plant or animal so it can be grown or raised by humans
What is domestication?
500
The following map shows this fertile area in modern day Iraq
What is the Fertile Crescent?
500
An event that leads to lasting change
What is a turning point?
500
Religion, job specialization, cities, government, language/writing systems, technology, and social hierarchy are the seven characteristics of this concept
What is civilization?
500
A new method of addressing a problem
What is an innovation?
500
The state in which a society is organized through grouping usually based on wealth, religion, ethnicity, or other factos.
What is social hierarchy?