Rise of Humans
The study of past cultures
What is archaeology?
The movement of humans through Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Oceania
What is human migration?
This is another word for the Neolithic Revolution?
What is agricultural or farming revolution?
This is known as foods that are grown or farming
What is agriculture?
Mesopotamia is located between these two bodies of wter
Where is between the Tigris and Euphrates river?
The shared characteristics of people
What is culture?
The definition of bipedal
What is walking on two legs?
Moving with the animals
What is nomadic?
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Moving and settling in different places
What is migration?
Mesopotamians experienced these, which happened when the rivers overflowed
What are floods?
This provides insight into a past culture
What is an artifact?
Name two tools that ancient humans used to hunt
What are stones, sharpened bones, clubs, and fire?
People studied patterns of growth in plants to do this
What is domesticate crops?
This leads to specilization of labor
What is a surplus of food?
List the three major cities of Mesopotamia
What are Ur, Uruk, and Eridu?
Lucy and Ardi are types of these two early humans
What are australipithecus and ardipithicus?
Fire was used to do this in hunting
What is scare animals into tar pits?
List the four first grown crops
What are wheat, millet, grain, and barley?
To change or alter in personality
What is to domesticate?
The water that flooded Mesopotamia got its nutrients from this process
What is runoff?
Similar to an archaeologist, anthropologists study these three things
What are ancient people, society, language?
Doing this made it easier to hunt, farm, and form/advance civilization
What is living in groups?
These are commonly known as the world's first two cities
What are Jericho and Çatalhöyük?
Ancient civilizations had these three forms of art
What are cave paintings, sculptures, and carvings?
List five irrigation systems Mesopotamians used to control the rivers
What are levees, dikes, dams, moats, ditches, and canals?