Section 1.1
The "Old Stone Age"
What was the Paleolithic Age?
A very long poem
What is an epic?
The two groups of people that defeated the Assyrians
Who were the Chaldeans and the Medes?
A person who hunts for artifacts
Who are archaeologists?
political districts
What are provinces?
Name the two oldest communities in the Middle East
What was Jericho and Catal Huyuk?
The two major rivers in Mesopotamia
What were the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers?
Who were the Hittities?
People who went from place to place without a fixed home
Who were nomads?
method of bringing water to a field from another place to water crops
What is irrigation?
The "New Stone Age"
What was the Neolithic Age?
The place in the middle of the Fertile Crescent
What is Mesopotamia?
The capitol of Assyria
What was Nineveh?
The development of different kinds of jobs
What is specialization?
writing system invented by Sumerians
What is a cuneiform?
Copper and tin mixed together
What is bronze?
Who were the Sumerians?
Year that the Chaldean empire fell
When was 539 B.C.?
an independent state made up of a city and the surrounding land and villages
What were city-states?
a large amount of land under one ruler
What is an empire?
Name of hominid found by Dr. Donald Johanson
Who is Lucy?
This king's code of laws governed almost every aspect of life
Who was Hammurabi?
The king who built the Hanging Gardens for his wife
Who was Nebuchadnezzar?
people who study the heavenly bodies, stars, planets, and the moon
Who are astronomers?
groups of traveling merchants
What were caravans?