Paleolithic Era
hunting-gathering
How did Paleolithic people get food?
What was the Neolithic Revolution?
This geographic feature gives fresh water for farming.
What are rivers?
These are the rivers that were close to Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
This is how Indus Valley cities were organized.
What is on a grid?
Nomadic
Were paleolithic people nomadic or sedentary?
This is why the population went up.
There was a surplus of food.
This is the type of religion that was practiced in early times.
What is polytheistic/nature worship?
This was the form of writing used in Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
This is why historians can't tell us exactly what the Indus River Valley was like.
What is: their writing has not been deciphered?
Fire and stone tools
What were early Paleolithic technologies?
This is when people have other jobs aside from farming.
What is job specialization?
This is the technology that EVERY river civilization developed.
What are irrigation canals?
This was the very first written law code.
What was Hammurabi's Code?
This important invention kept the people of the Indus River Valley Civilization clean.
What is plumbing?
50 people or less
How many people would live together in a group?
This was a technology needed to bring water from the river to the crops.
What are irrigation canals?
This was the center of religious and political life in Mesopotamia.
What was the ziggurat?
These were two technologies invented in Mesopotamia that helped with farming (NOT irrigation canals!!!)
What were the wheel and the plow?
This is the river that the people of the Indus River Valley civilization used.
What is the Indus River?
Why were there fewer differences in the status of men and women during the Paleolithic Era?
This is the geographic feature near where early civilizations began.
What are rivers?
This was how people traded for goods before the invention of currency.
What is bartering?
This is one job that was found in Mesopotamia.
What was: potter, artisan, blacksmith, cooper....
What is a monsoon?