Get Paleo
People who lived prior to civilization/farming
What are Paleolithic people?
Transition from hunting/gathering to farming
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
Location of Sumer
What is the southern tip of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
The first written language
What is cuneiform?
Definition of pre-history
What is the time before writing?
Definition of nomad
What are people who move from place to place for food?
What civilizations were centered in
What are cities?
Assyria was most famous for this
What is a ruthless army? OR What is a warrior society?
What Hammurabi's Codes were written on
What is a stone pillar?
The oldest known civilization
What is Sumer?
When history began
What is 5000 years ago? OR What is the time before writing?
Rivers in the heart of Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
Sumerian social hierarchy (top to bottom)
What are kings, middle class, and slaves?
Definition of Ziggurat
What is a large stepped pyramid Mesopotamian temple, center of Meso city-states, where only priests entered to make sacrifices and perform rituals?
Definition of polytheistic
What is a belief in many gods?
Definition of archaeology
What is the study of artifacts to determine how people lived?
Area where Neolithic people settled
What is the Fertile Crescent?
One of the most powerful Assyrian leaders
What is Sargon II?
Fabled "wonder" that King Nebuchadnezzar II built
What are the Hanging Gardens?
Characteristics of civilizations
What is technology, religion, a stable food supply, the arts, writing, government, and social classes?
Two reasons that hunting/gathering is better than farming (two negative impacts of farming)
What is the rise of inequality; creation of social classes/social hierarchy; rise of war; rise of theft; corrupt/controlling governments; sexual inequality; conflict?
Three positive impacts of farming
What is civilizations; cities; arts and tools; larger populations; food for more people; trade; specialization of jobs; government/laws; writing?
King Hammurabi's two claims to fame
What is united Mesopotamia under the Babylonian Empire and created Hammurabi's Code?
The Fertile Crescent is the birthplace of ______________ (3 things)
What is writing, agriculture, and irrigation?
10 modern-day countries within Mesopotamia
What is Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan?