Prehistory
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Contributions
Vocabulary
100
The time period before written records.
What is Prehistory?
100
The 1st civilization to form.
What is Sumer?
100
The river that floods every year to provide rich silt for growing crops.
What is the Nile River?
100
Using symbols or pictures to record information.
What is a writing system?
100
The supreme ruler of Ancient Egypt.
What is a "pharaoh?"
200
The movement of people from one area to another in order to follow food and or warmth.
What is migration?
200
An eye for an eye. An ear for an ear.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
200
A way to measure the passage of time.
What is a calendar?
200
Items to help make work easier
What are tools?
200
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!! The development of agriculture.
What is the "Neolithic Revolution?"
300
The religious figure worshipped by the Neolithic People.
What is Earth Mother?
300
No longer using stone tools, instead using a medal.
What are bronze tools?
300
The 1st and last female pharaohs.
Who are Hatshepsut and Cleopatra?
300
People living in one area, together with other people nearby
What are villages?
300
The use of skills and tools to serve human needs
What is "technology?"
400
Another name for the New and Old Stone Age.
What are the Paleolithic and Neolithic ages?
400
The 2 rivers in Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates River?
400
Her name means "The beautiful women has come."
Who is Nefertiti?
400
The watering of dry land by means of streams, canals, or pipes in order to grow more crops
What is irrigation?
400
The practice of farming, growing crops and raising animals, for food.
What is "agriculture?"
500
Domesticating plants and animals to feed humans.
What is the development of agriculture?
500
The material used to record information and the name of the writing system.
What is clay and cuneiform?
500
The god of the Sun.
What is or Who is Ra/Re?
500
The domestication of plants and animals
What is "agriculture?"
500
A society with a political, economic, and religious system. They create intellectual achievements, such as a writing system, an arts.
What is a "civilization?"
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