Early hominids, the ancestors of modern humans migrated from this continent around 100,000 years ago
What is Africa?
100
People who hunt animals and gather plants for food.
What are hunter-gatherers?
100
a way of supplying water to an area of land
What is irrigation?
100
The Sumerians developed the world's first writing system. They used sharp tools called styluses to make wedge-shaped symbols on clay tablets. What was it called?
What is cuneiform?
100
group of people who are given or take power to make decisions for a larger group
What is government?
200
From East Africa, early humans migrated to South Africa and then towards this continent around 50,000 years ago
What is South West Asia?
200
The shift from food gathering to food producing.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
200
Irrigation increased the amount of food farmers were able to grow. In fact they could produce more than they needed.
What is surplus?
200
Because of this invention, they were the first people to build carts and wagons
What is the wheel?
200
inventing useful things to solve problems such as the wheel, sewers, metal working and irrigation systems
What is technology?
300
Early humans traveled from South West Asia through the Middle East, and then moved east across South Asia into this continent
What is Australia?
300
People learned how to plant seeds themselves to grow their own crops. Then they learned how to change plants or animals to make them more useful.
What is domestication?
300
Because irrigation made farmers more productive, fewer people needed to farm. As a result, occupations developed.
What is division of labor?
300
This invention was pulled by oxen an broke through the hard clay soil of Sumer to prepare it for planting.
What is the plow?
300
Ur in Sumer, and Babylon in Mesopotamia are basic political units of people working and living together
What is city (city-state)?
400
From Australia, early humans migrated into South West Asia and then into this continent.
What is Europe?
400
The domestication of plants led to the development of agriculture, or _____.
What is farming.
400
Large construction projects required specialized workers, managers, and organization which led to _____.
What is laws and government?
400
We use this Sumerian advancement in mathematics everyday when we look at the calendar
What is 12 months?
400
The caste system is an example of a group of people within a civilization that are characterized by birth, wealth, or occupation, etc.
What are social classes?
500
Early humans migrated from Europe, and to North Asia and into this continent around 12,000 years ago.
What is North America?
500
Most experts believe the Neolithic Revolution first occurred in the societies of this continent.
What is Southwest Asia?
500
these two problems led to the need for irrigation
What is flooding and water levels that were too low?
500
The Mesopotamians developed a mathematical system based on this number that we still use today.
What is the number 60 to tell time?
500
Cuneiform, Hieroglyphics, Sanskrit were used to keep records and increase communication