Food & Water
Beliefs & Religion
Social Structure
Technology
Wildcard
100
A fancy word for farming, developed around 8000 BC by early humans.
What is agriculture?
100
Believed to be the earliest example of religious beliefs: everything has a living spirit.
What is Animism?
100
The lowest rung on the Sumerian social hierarchy, these people were temporarily owned by others and had fewer rights.
What are slaves?
100
A circular device that is often used in transportation. It can also be used to create pottery.
What is the wheel?
100
A lack of water in an area.
What is a drought?
200
Before farming was invented, the earliest humans became this in order to feed themselves.
What are hunter-gatherers?
200
Most common in early cities and city-states, a religion that believes in multiple gods.
What is polytheism?
200
A large independent city that rules over the surrounding area.
What is a city-state?
200
Natural occurring, humans learned how to harness and reproduce this in order to light dark areas and cook their food.
What is fire?
200
The average size of a group of hunter-gatherers.
What is 30?
300
Crucial to the spread of farming and the creation of large cities, this technique redirects water from rivers and spreads it out over a large area.
What is irrigation?
300
The leaders of religion in early Sumer.
What are priests/priestesses?
300
Although this group has often been discriminated against throughout history, they enjoyed almost equal status with men in early Sumer.
Who are women?
300
The earliest ranged weapons, primarily used to hunt from a distance.
What are bows/atlatls?
300
Known as the land between two rivers, this is the region where human civilization began.
What is Mesopotamia?
400
Teaching a single animal to behave in a certain way.
What is taming?
400
A massive structure that served as a temple, government office, and food storage facility in early Sumer.
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400
The highest rung on the Sumerian social hierarchy, these people or their families often owned the land before a city was ever founded.
What are kings, leaders, and priests?
400
The earliest known tools, made out of rocks and used to chop and cut.
What are stone hand-axes?
400
Meaning "too much of something", a ___ of food allowed for specialization to occur and many inventions and discoveries to be made.
What is a surplus?
500
Selectively breeding a species in order to make it more useful to humans.
What is domestication?
500
Created by early humans as a form of creative expression using paints and pigments, may have had religious significance.
What are cave paintings?
500
The largest group on the Sumerian social hierarchy, did much of the work that city-states needed to function.
What are farmers, builders, craftsmen, and artisans?
500
Developed in early Sumer; this concept is used to measure time, determine how much land you need, count, and so much more.
What is mathematics?
500
An event that occurred in year 0 of our calendar, having great religious significance.
What is the birth of Jesus?