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Period of human past before writing was invented
What is prehistory
Means before the birth of Christ
What is B.C.?
he resource that allowed communities to settle and build cities
What are rivers?
The earliest ways of getting food
What is hunting and gathering?
The area between Tigris & Euphrates Rivers, and between Mediterranean Sea & Persian Gulf
What is Fertile Crescent?
Humans and other creatures that walked upright
What is Hominid?
This provided a means for Prehistoric people to arrive in North America.
What is a land bridge?
To tame animals for human use
What is domesticate?
This resource allowed people in the Old Stone Age to live in cold climates
What is fire?
A massive stepped tower on which was built a temple dedicated to the chief god/goddess of a Sumerian city
What is Ziggurat?
Another name for the New Stone Age
What is the Neolithic Age? (or Revolution)?
A period when the northern continents were buried under ice and snow
What is The Ice Age?
he first metal used for tools during the Neolithic period
What is copper?
Another name for the Old Stone Age
What is the Paleolithic Age?
A government established by divine authority
What is Theocracy?
Skilled workers who make products such as weapons and jewelry
What are artisans?
The study of objects to learn about past human life
What is archaeology?
The harvesting of plants and the raising of domesticated animals.
What is systematic agriculture?
Considered technology, early Stone Age people made these out of stone
What are tools?
A state with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside
What is City-State?
System of writing using a reed stylus to create wedge-shaped impressions on a clay tablet
What is a cuneiform?
Believed to have spread out of Africa to other parts of the word, replacing populations of earlier hominids in Europe and Asia
What is “Out-of-Africa” theory?
Supplying land with water through a network of canals
What is irrigation?
A person who has no single settled home and moves from place to place to find food
What is a nomad?
Believing in many gods
What is Polytheistic?