Geography
Imaginary lines that run North-South and measure East to West
What is Longitude
The preserved remains of a once-living organism
What is a Fossil?
the written system used for the Epic of Gilgamesh
Bonus: Why was the Epic of Gilgamesh important?
People who move from place to place to find food
What are nomads?
To domesticate animals or farm crops
What is agriculture?
The Warrior State
The Assyrians
Imaginary lines that run East-West and measure North to South
What is Latitude?
Original, first-hand information written or produced in the time period being investigated
What is Primary Source?
Two rivers that surround Mesopotamia
What is the Euphrates and Tigris?
Bonus: Which river is to the left of the Fertile Crescent?
Type of shelter used
What is no permanent homes? (Caves, portable teepee/tents, etc. acceptable)
Type of shelter used in New Stone Age
Permanent homes (made out of wood/stone)
First group to write down their system of laws
Babylonians
The amount of distance on a map that represents a particular distance on the earth's surface
What is Scale?
A source written about the primary source, written or said after the event
What is Secondary Source?
To train an animal to live with humans for the advantage of the humans
What is Domestication?
Another name for Old Stone Age
What is Paleolithic?
Another name of New Stone Age
What is Neolithic?
temple where people prayed
What is a ziggurat?
When reading/writing directions to a point on the map, _______________ is written first.
What is Latitude
Bonus (2): what is unit of measure and cardinal direction following the latitude number?
Material remains of past human life and activities
What is Artifact?
Earliest set of laws for city-states
Code of Hammurabi
Bonus (2): Who was Hammurabi
Supplies needed to create tools
Stone or bones
Clothes for people in New Stone Age were made of:
Fabric, cloth
The Cradle of Civilization
Mesopotamia
Bonus (2): Who was the king who united all of Mesopotamia?
What is a Compass Rose?
Bonus (2): What are the four Cardinal Directions?
What are the four Intermediate Directions?
Put these civilizations in chronological order from oldest to newest: Aramaic, Phoenician, Hebrew, Sumerian
Sumerians - 3300BCE, Phoenicians - 1100BCE, Hebrew - 10BCE, Aramaic 1-BCE
The Eight Features of Civilizations
What are: Advanced Cities, Organized Central Government, Religion, Job Specialization, Social Classes, Public Works, Art & Architecture, Writing Systems
The years of the Old Stone Age
What is 12,000-70,000 years ago?
Bonus: What are years of the New Stone Age?
Explain the importance of surplus food in creating cities
Surplus food - established trade and economy for city, allowed people to do things other than grow food (job specialization), root of many religious beliefs, writing (needed system to record trade)
Invented the writing system of cuneiform
Sumerians