Paleolithic Age
What does Paleolithic mean?
"Old" or stone age
What does neolithic mean?
New Age
Which geographic feature was central to Ancient Egypt's sucess
Nile River
Tigris and Euphrates
What does Mesopotamia mean?
Land between two rivers
How did people during this time often get food?
hunting and gathering
What technological development brought people into the neolithic age?
Agriculture
These structures were tombs for the pharos
Pyramids
The first King of Babylon
Hammurabi
This was the name of the area where agriculture first sarted and the worlds first civiliations developed
Fertile Crescent
Define Nomad
Someone who moves from place to place in search of food
Define domestication?
Taming animals for food or human use
This is the name for Egyptian writing
Hieroglyphics
The phrase "an eye for an aye" is most closely associated with what?
Hammurabi's Code
This is the definition of setting people up into different classes (like middle and upper class)
Social Hierarchy
the earliest images and evidence from this time period include these
cave paintings
This is the word for having more than enough food?
Surplus
Explain the role religion played in ancient Egypt?
Religion was important because they had many gods to help explain how the world works. They built temples and worshiped them. They also believed heavily in the afterlife.
Mesopotamian writing was called
Cunieform
What were the different ways that Ancient Civilizations irrigated their land or controlled water?
Dikes, Dams and Canals
The earliest known human beings were found to exist in where?
Central Africa
Explain how the development of agriculture led to the first cities?
People stopped following their food and needed to remain in one spot to farm and raise animals
Explain the role flooding played in Ancient Egypt
When the Nile flooded it would irrigate and fertilize the soil which would allow for crops to grow. The Egyptians based their calendar off the flooding of the Nile
This was the name of a mesopotmaian "pyramid"
Ziggurat
Define primary and secondary source and provide examples
Primary- from the actual event (cave painting)
Secondary- was not actually there (textbook)