Geography
Civilization
Hunters and Gathers
Civilizations 2
Misc
100
Alternate name for Mesopotamia
What is "the Fertile Crescent"
100
Development that allowed civilization to begin
What is agriculture or farming?
100
First domesticated crops
What are barley and wheat?
100
An object made and used by the people
What is an artifact?
100
Modern day country within Mesopotamia
What is Iraq?
200
Greek for "land between two rivers"
What is Mesopotamia
200
Worked together to meet needs of food, clothing, and shelter
What is a band?
200
By doing this, a group was able to work faster and use natural resources more efficiently.
What is specialize?
200
Built the hanging gardens of Babylon for his homesick wife
Who is Nebuchadnezzar
200
Pyramid structure sometimes up to seven stories high used as a place of worship
What is a ziggurat?
300
Two rivers of Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers
300
First modern humans lived here and began migrating from here more than 100,000 years ago
Where is eastern and southern Africa?
300
Authors of the earliest written laws
Who are the Babylonians
300
First written language
What is cuneiform?
300
Ruler who created the first written code of law that included the saying "an eye for an eye"?
Who is Hammurabi?
400
Reason why Mesopotamia was easy to invade
What is no natural barriers
400
This is the use of knowledge and skills to make the work of everyday life easier
What is technology?
400
This made people less likely to move
What is farming or the domestication of plants?
400
Obsidian, flint, copper, shells, and timber
What are raw materials imported by the people of Catal Huyuk?
400
These defended many early farming villages, including the settlement of Jericho.
What are walls?
500
Reason why farmland was so fertile or nutrient rich
What is flooding
500
Groups of people organized according to the amount of power they have access to
What are social classes?
500
This city in Mesopotamia was settled before 3000 B.C. and was built along the shores of the Euphrates River on the shore of the Persian Gulf
What is Ur?
500
Refers to any organized group of people with shared customs, traditions, and ways of life
What is a society?
500
Three characteristics of a civilization
What are developed forms of religion; developed centers of learning; developed ways of governing.
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