Pre-History
A man made object that is of historical significance.
What is an artifact?
Someone's way of life that includes traditions, foods and activities.
What is culture?
Early Civilizations were built on these.
What are rivers?
A writer who copied documents long before printing presses.
What is a scribe?
The modern day country of the ancient people of Mesopotamia.
Where is Iraq in the Middle East.
Prehistoric people were called this because it was their way of securing food.
What are hunter-gatherers?
Period of time since writing and written records.
What is history?
Advanced & organized human social and cultural development.
What are civilizations?
Exchanging of goods for other goods or services without exchanging money.
What is barter?
The rivers Mesopotamia was built upon.
What are the Tigris & Euphrates rivers?
Period of time before written records.
What is pre-history?
The process of adapting animals for human use.
What is domestication?
A worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand.
What is an artisan?
A society founded for a religious, education, social or similar purpose.
What is an institution?
A nomadic culture today.
Who are Gypsy's?
Humans that traveled from place to place in search for food?
What are nomads?
The New Stone Age that began around 10,000 B.C.
What is the Neolithic Age?
Becoming an expert in a particular subject or skill.
What is specialization?
A rectangular stepped tower sometimes surmounted by a temple.
What is a Ziggurat?
The largest river in the United States that many cities were built next to.
What is the Mississippi river?
The old stone age when people used stone and bones for tools.
What is the Paleolithic Age?
The advent of agriculture when people began to plant seeds to grow their own crops.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
Wedge shaped writing used in ancient Mesopotamia & Persia.
What is cuneiform?
A pre-historic period that followed the Stone Age and preceded the Iron Age.
What was the Bronze Age?
Scientists today learn about life in pre-historic times by unearthing these.
What are artifacts & fossils?