Vocabulary
Prehistory
Sumer
4 Empires
CHANCES
100
Many Stone Age people. People who had no single, or settled home. They hunted and gathered to find their food.
What is nomad?
100
Another name from the Neolithic Age
What is the New Stone Age
100
The 1st Civilization
What is Sumer?
100
The 1st Empire in Mesopotamia
What is Akkadia
100
Define trade
To exchange goods or services
200
The use of tools and other inventions for practical purposes
What is Technology?
200
(Old Stone Age) Time when people got their food by hunting wild animals and gathering nuts, berries, and other plants. People were nomads.
What is the Paleolithic Age?
200
Ancient Sumerian King. An Epic story was written about him.
What is Gilgamesh?
200
The 1st King of Babylonia
Who is Hammurabi?
200
Modern day country where Mesopotamia was located
What is Iraq?
300
Define status
What is importance?
300
2 similarities between the Neolithic Age & the Paleolithic Age?
What is Stone Age, hunted, ate meat, humans, lived with others, stone tools
300
Define Sumer
What is Located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The southern part of Mesopotamia where cities first appeared.
300
Name all 4 Empires of Mesopotamia
What is Akkadia, Babylonia, Assyria, Neo- Babylonia
300
Hammurabi's laws could be described as
What is fair- did not matter who you were, you had to pay for your crimes
400
Define Ziggurat
What is A ancient Mesopotamian temple tower?
400
2 differences between the Neolithic & Paleolithic Ages?
What is farming, food supply, technology, trade/ resources, jobs/ occupations, populations, settlement, shelter
400
2 reasons why the creation of a writing system was important to the Sumerians and to future civilizations
What is communication, education, language, record history, taxes, laws
400
Name 2 achievements from any of the 4 empires
What is Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Neo- Babylonian
400
Can a civilization exist with out a stable food supply?
No
500
Define Aqueduct
What is A pipe or channel that brings water from distant places?
500
6 Changes in Daily Life that affected the Neolithic Age
What is food supply, technology, trade/ resources, jobs/ occupations, populations, settlement, shelter
500
4 Challenges that the Sumerians faced
What is uncontrolled water supply, building & maintaining a complex irrigation system, food shortages, attacks by neighboring communities
500
Name the 4 Empires the order in which they occured
What is Akkadia, Babylonia, Assyria, Neo Babylonia
500
When did the Neo- Babylonian Empire begin and end?
What is 612 BCE to 539 BCE?
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