Something Old
The Oldest Inhabitant Place in Pennsylvania
What is the McKees Rocks Mound?
How people use the mountains to terrace farming is an example of this category.
What is Geography?
An arc of fertile soil
What is Fertile Crescent?
1 of the 3 kingdoms in Ancient Mesopotamia: Hint: B, A, S
What are Babylon, Assyria, or Sumer?
Mesopotamia kings got their power from here
What is the gods?
objects made by humans in the past such as arrowheads
What is an artifact?
The largest group is Mesopotamia society are farmers at the bottom of the pyramid, fitting into this category.
People created a wedged-shaped writing system with letters in order to record data and communicate.
What is cunieform?
After the river would flood, it would deposit this for farmers or rich soil and small rocks.
What is silt?
Most people in Mesopotamia had this job.
Farming is also called this.
What is agriculture?
A society believing in more than one god fits into this category.
What is Religion?
Another word for countryside
What is Rural?
What is Euphrates River?
This is the general geometric shape of Ancient Mesopotamia society.
What is a pyramid?
The study of past events and people.
What is history?
A society using the barter system to trade fits into this category.
What is Economics?
The antonym (opposide) meaning of rural (looking for vocab term).
What is urban?
This river in Ancient Mespotamia is located further east, but dumps into the Persian Gulf.
What is the Tigris River?
What is retribution?
The values, customs, beliefs, and rituals of a group of people.
What is culture?
It is considered a civilization when a group has all of these six components.
What is geography, religion, achievements, politics/government, economics, and social structure?
A society with cities, a central government, religion, and social classes.
What is a civilization?
What is a map key?
What is cultural diffusion