Inventions
Hunters, Gatherers and Agrarian Socities
Mesopotamian Cities
Modge Podge
Vocabulary
100
A network of canals used to supply dry land with water from another place is called an ____________ system.
What is irrigation.
100
Typical life of a hunter gather included:
What is moving from place to place.
100
Most Mesopotamian structures were made out of
What is mud bricks.
100
Where did the earliest civilizations begin?
What is Mesopotamia.
100
To tame an animal is to...
What is domesticate.
200
Mesopotamians were the first to create this device to track time, what is it?
What is a calendar.
200
Why were people able to begin trading with others in the area?
They had a surplus of food.
200
Hammurabi was the ruler of this city,
What is Babylon.
200
How do limited resources affect choices?
What is, people have to choose to keep some things and give up others.
200
People who move from place to place are called?
What is nomads.
300
Mesopotamians used this device to help them farm.
What is the plow.
300
Hunters and gathers commonly survived by__________ and __________ in small bands.
What is hunting and gathering.
300
What Hammurabi famous for?
What is writing the first written laws of a civilization.
300
Who was the king of Babylon?
Who is Hammurabi.
300
Societies that are farm based are commonly called...
What is agrarian.
400
Mesopotamians were the first to create this device to help move things from place to place.
What is the wheel.
400
Hunter and gatherer societies changed when
What is they learned how to farm.
400
This was the lowest class of people found in a Mesopotamian city.
What is a slave.
400
Why is Mesopotamia considered the “Cradle of Civilization”?
Because it is here where civilization began.
400
Most structures surround the _________ in Mesopotamian society.
What is the Ziggurat.
500
This cultural achievement was the first of its kind to keep order in society.
What are Hammurabi's laws.
500
Mesopotamia was situated in an ideal place because,
The land is fertile and there is water.
500
Name the job of a middle class person in a Mesopotamian city.
What is a merchant, farmer, or soldier.
500
The area where Mesopotamia began is commonly referred to as:
What is the Fertile Crescent.
500
This term represents an abundance of food.
What is a surplus.
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