From Hunter/Gatherers to Farmers
What is another term for the Old Stone Age?
The Paleolithic Age
Sumer is located in what modern-day country?
Iraq
a society marked by development of arts, sciences, government, and social structure.
Civilization
Invented by the Sumerians, this technology made it much easier to move heavy loads.
the wheel
A large territory in which several groups of people are ruled by a single leader or government.
Empire
This age began when people started farming and producing their own food, and ended when people started to use metal to make tools instead of stone.
The Neolithic Age
a Greek word that means the "land between two rivers"
Mesopotamia
the use of tools and other inventions for practical purposes. (for example, the wheel)
technology
This added strength and beauty to Sumerian buildings and is said to the Sumeriansʻ greatest architectural achievement.
Arch
This city-state located in northern Mesopotamia became the worldʻs first empire around 2300 B.C.
Akkad
Small bands of people wandering from place to place in search of food describes what age?
The Paleolithic Age
The two main rivers of the Fertile Crescent are the Tigris and the _________.
Euphrates
merchants, farmers, artisans, and fisherman were among those in which social level?
middle
writing that uses wedge-shaped characters (the first written language)
cuneiform
The Akkadian Empires first ruler, who legend says was the illegitimate son of a priestess and was floated away in a basket of reeds as a baby.
Sargon
The business of buying and selling or exchanging items.
Trade
The ancient Sumerians created a complex __________ system to manage the water supply.
irrigation/ canal
An ancient Mesopotamian temple tower with outside staircases and a shrine at the top.
Ziggurat
A tools used for tilling, or turning, the soil to prepare for planting.
plow
This king of Babylon wrote a code of laws and used it to unify and preserve order in his empire.
Hammurabi
The business of farming; growing crops and raising animals.
Agriculture
An early city that was like a small, independent country with its own laws and government.
City-state
A person who records laws and decrees of the king in writing.
Scribe
A wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its banks.
levee
In chronological order, name the 4 empires of Mesopotamia.
1) Akkadians
2) Babylonians
3) Assyrians
4) Neo-Babylonians