Mesopotamia
This allowed better pottery to create bowls, jars, and other vessels.
What is the potter's wheel?
What is Crete?
The god of commerce.
Who is Hermes?
An extra amount, beyond what is needed.
What is surplus?
This was the center of most Sumerian city-states and were large complexes that had administrative centers and warehouses for food.
What are ziggurats?
A long, complex tale that tells the story of a hero's adventures.
What is an epic?
Before civilizations, these societies had to move from place to place to find food, shelter, and resources.
What are hunter gatherers?
What are desserts and the rough waters of the Upper Nile?
Sumerian calendars were based on this cycle.
What is the moon cycle?
What are religious leaders or priest-kings?
This civilization had many religious rituals that were later incorporated into Greek civilization.
What is the Mycenaean civilization?
The goddess of the hunt.
Who is Artemis?
Tiny bits of rocks, minerals, and organic matter.
What are silt?
This artifact found in the British Museum showed various aspects of Sumerian civilization that allowed us to learn more about the Sumerians.
What is the Standard of Ur?
What is irrigation?
Nearly every early civilization was near this.
What are rivers or river valleys?
The name for the ruler of Egypt.
What are pharaohs?
Set of laws that were displayed in public and outlined the punishments for various behaviors. "Eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth."
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
Sumerians lacked many resources, such as wood, stone, and metal, so this was important to the Sumerians.
What is trade and commerce?
What are the Hellenes or Hellenic culture?
The god of art and music.
Who is Apollo?
A person who will legally receive the property of someone who dies, a person who becomes king or queen after he or she dies.
What is heir?
Mesopotamia is between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
A person whose job is to write or make copies of written information.
What is a scribe?
These caused the soil to be rich with minerals and other nutrients that allowed these soil to be amazing for farming.
What are floods?
Women had ______ rights than that of other civilizations.
What is more?
Ashurbanipal's Library contained tens of thousands of clay tablets that included this tablet.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
Mesopotamia is the combination of two words, which two words and what do they mean?
What is meso (middle or in between) and potamus (river)?
This is the first civilization of Greece and the language that they spoke.
What are the Minoans and Linear A?
The god of madness and ecstasy.
Who is Dionysus?
Belief in or worship of more than one deity.
What is polytheism?
The floods in Mesopotamia created these two advantages for the people there.
What are rich soil and clay?
Land created by silt deposits at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
Please list at least 3 defining characteristics of civilizations:
What are permanent settlements, division of labor, social class, political structure, writing, and trade?
Who created the original pyramids?
What is cuneiform?
These two inventions were used to hold back and direct floodwater.
What are dikes and canals?
Because it was an expectation that people should have a say in the running of the polis, this lead to the creation of this public space that served as both a marketplace as well as meeting spaces.
What is an agora?
The goddess of fertility.
Who is Demeter?
Firsthand account of a historical event.
What is a primary source?
The Code of Hammurabi was the first to establish this rule that our justice system today still uses.
What is "innocent until proven guilty"?
Who are archeologists?
Increased food supplies allowed for this.
What are division of labor or social classes?
This was the center of Egyptian religion and was created based on the fact that the flooding of the Nile was very consistent and predictable.
What is Ma'at?
Created iron weapons that allowed them to create this powerful empire.
What is the Assyrian Empire?