Paleolithic or Neolithic
Architecture
Innovations
Geography Helps
Civilizations
Mystery?????
100
Hunted and Gathered their food.
What is Paleolithic?
100
This building was used as a burial place or a pharaoh.
What is pyramid?
100
This innovation of the Sumerians helped improve transportation. We would go nowhere without it today.
What is the wheel?
100
These nutrients come from the river and make the land more fertile.
What is silt?
100
Leader of Babylon. Created 282 laws and taxation.
Who is Hammurabi?
200
Built temporary shelters out of bones and animal skins.
What is Paleolithic?
200
This was a religious building used by the ancient Mesopotamians. Only priests were allowed to enter the top shrine for the gods.
What is a ziggurat?
200
Type of writing used by the Mesopotamians. It was written on clay tablets with a stylus.
What is cuneiform?
200
What are two types of landforms that helped protect Egypt from attacks?
What is deserts, cataracts, marsh...
200
Leader of Akkad. Created the first empire and was known for knocking down the walls and pillars of the city-states.
Who is Sargon?
300
Started farming for food.
What is Neolithic?
300
This enormous creature had the head of a pharaoh and the body of a lion. It guarded the resting place of the pharaohs.
What is the Sphinx?
300
Type of writing that uses pictures. Used by the Mesopotamians.
What is hieroglyphics?
300
Early man discovered this during Neolithic times. It helped people stay in one place and not have to worry about food.
What is agriculture?
300
Name the 4 civilizations of Mesopotamia in chronological order.
What is SABA? Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians.
400
This group had more permanent shelters made out of mud-brick.
What is Neolithic?
400
These three things were built as a way to keep Mesopotamia from flooding.
What are dikes, dams, and canals?
400
This system was used to bring water to areas that needed it.
What is irrigation?
400
These two rivers flooded the Fertile Crescent to make it a great place to grow crops.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates?
400
King of Uruk. Friends with Enkidu. Had an epic written about him.
Who is Gilgamesh?
500
This group had more time to invent new things, have different kinds of jobs, and was able to start trading.
What is Neolithic?
500
This rounded doorway was invented by the Mesopotamians. It has a upside-down "U" shape.
What is the arch?
500
The Assyrians were famous for using this innovation. It was used to knock down the walls of a city upon attack.
What is the battering ram?
500
Area of the River in Egypt that many people settled in. It's triangular in shape.
What is the Nile Delta?
500
Describe the three seasons of Egypt.
What is Akhet (flood Season), Peret (planting and Growing Season) and Shemu (Harvest).
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