Prehistory
Early tools were made of this.
What is stone (could also be bone)?
The word for early farmers taming wild animals (like goats or sheep).
What is domestication?
A pyramid of stacked platforms that Mesopotamians built as a link to the Gods.
What was a ziggurat?
Babylonian King famous for his law code.
Who was Hammurabi?
Led the Hebrew people out of Egypt.
Who was Moses?
Objects made by people long ago, that archaeologist use to understand how they live.
What are artifacts?
Collecting or gathering wild (or farmed) plants.
What is harvesting?
Land that is rich and good for growing crops.
What is fertile?
The wedge-shaped form of writing created by the Sumerian people.
What is cuneiform?
The person considered by Jewish people to be the first Jew.
Who is Abraham?
Some of the first plants that were domesticated.
What were grains (like wheat, rice, and barley)?
Once people started farming, they developed these instead of following herds of animals.
What were villages?
Trenches and ditches to move water from rivers/lakes to crops.
What is irrigation?
An early piece of literature about a Sumerian King.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
The important Jewish belief that there is only one God.
What is monotheism?
Marked the end of the Stone Age.
What was the development of metal tools?
In addition to animals and plants, early farmers domesticated these.
What are bees (or insects or silk worms)?
The names of the two rivers bordering the Fertile Crescent to the north and south.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
The Akkadian ruler who conquered multiple city states, and started the first empire with his family dynasty.
Who was Sargon?
King David united the Hebrew people into one country, and his sons divided it into these two countries.
What are Israel and Judah?
Archaeologists believe humans used this to first travel to the Americas.
What is Beringia, or a land bridge from Asia to Alaska?
In addition to tools and discarded items, these artifacts tell archaeologists the most about ancient people.
What is prehistoric artwork?
In Sumer there was a class system, with these people holding the most power, and these people having the least (two answers)
What are business and land owners (at the top) and slaves (at the bottom)?
The Assyrians built a famous one in their capital city of Ninevah.
What is a library?
The Phoenicians' and Lydians' most important contributions to the modern world (two things).
What are the alphabet and coins?