Early Humans
Mesopotamia
The First Empires
Miscellaneous
Hodge-Podge
100
People who regularly move from place to place.
What are nomads
100
The Sumerian writing system was called this.
What is cuneiform?
100
People who study heavenly bodies such as stars, planets, and moons.
Who are astronomers?
100
Early weapons, tools, or other things made by humans.
What are artifacts?
100
These are the two rivers that are located in Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
200
These people study artifacts and fossils to help them understand the past.
What are archaeologists?
200
Skilled workers who made metal products, cloth, or pottery are called this.
What are artisans?
200
The Chaldean king who built the Hanging Gardens to please his wife.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
200
This place is known as the "land between the rivers" or the "cradle of civilization" or the "fertile crescent".
What is Mesopotamia?
200
"Old Stone Age"
What is Paleolithic?
300
Taming an animal or plant for use by humans is called this.
What is domestication?
300
Building dams, channels, walls, and ditches to bring water to crops.
What is irrigation?
300
A group of traveling merchants.
What is a caravan?
300
A complex society that has organized government, culture, and writing.
What is a civilization?
300
This group of people developed a way of making iron strong enough to use for weapons.
Who are the Hittites?
400
"New Stone Age"
What is neolithic?
400
He wrote a legal code (laws) that covered most areas of daily life.
Who is Hammurabi?
400
A political district.
What is a province?
400
A grand temple with a shrine at the top, like a giant square wedding cake.
What is a ziggurat?
400
A group of many different lands under one ruler.
What is an empire?
500
Traces of plants or animals preserved in rock.
What are fossils?
500
Record keepers who often went on to become government officials.
Who are scribes?
500
This group of people had a strong and fierce army that used iron weapons to conquer the Mesopotamians.
Who are the Assyrians?
500
Has its own government but is not a part of a larger unit - surrounded by a wall.
What is a city-state?
500
People who study and write about the human past.
Who are historians?
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