When people have different kinds of jobs - not everyone is providing food
What is specialization?
100
The literal meaning of Mesopotamia.
What is "land between the rivers"?
100
The first civilization
What is Sumer?
200
The behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group.
What is culture?
200
Stone Age, Bronze Age, & Iron Age
What are the periods of prehistory?
200
People who regularly move from place to place.
What are nomads?
200
A grand temple meaning "mountain of god"
What is a ziggurat?
200
Nineveh, the capital of Assyria, was the location of this.
What is the first library?
300
The natural environment: organisms, soil, water, climate, and landforms
What is physical geography?
300
Scientists who dig up artifacts to learn about past peoples and cultures.
What are archaeologists?
300
Greater security, surplus of food, trade, and specialization
What are the benefits of a settled life?
300
A curving strip of land from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea
What is the Fertile Crescent?
300
The leader of the Amorites enforced this which made the state more active in punishing criminals.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
400
Objects made by human beings for a specific use.
What are artifacts?
400
An advanced state of human society, in which a high level of culture, science, industry, and government has been reached.
What is civilization.
400
The command given by God in Gen. 1:28 and repeated in Gen. 9:7.
What is "Be fruitful and multiply"?
400
A writing system of wedges made in wet clay
What is cuneiform?
400
One of the 7 wonders of the ancient world built by King Nebuchadnezzar
What are the Hanging Gardens?
500
Human activities: economy, politics, population, religion, recreation, . . .
What is human geography?
500
An important document that has its oldest preserved manuscripts from the Iron Age.
What is the Hebrew Bible?
500
The beginning of farming and the formation of villages.
What is the New Stone Age, or Neolithic Age?
500
"Go from your country and your kindred, and go the the land I will show you, and I will make of you a great nation, and in you all the families of the world will be blessed."
What is the command and promise God gave to Abraham?
500
Descendants of the Amorites who took Judah into exile.