One-word Terms
Paleolithic Age
Mesopotamia
Agricultural Revolution
Hodgepodge
100
the fancy word for change
What is a revolution?
100
job of men in Paleolithic Age
What is hunting?
100
meaning of Mesopotamia
What is "the land between the rivers"?
100
first producers of food that discovered farming
Who were women?
100
when people perform tasks that match their talents instead of just looking for food; the division of labor
What is specialization?
200
Fancy word for "tame"
What is domesticate?
200
people who move from place to place in order to survive
Who are nomads?
200
two rivers that Mesopotamia is between
What is the Tigris and the Euphrates?
200
southern Mesopotamia
What is Sumer?
200
Three things that rivers provided
What is fish, water for drinking, water for crops, a way to find animals, a way to trade? (Name 3 out of 5)
300
the fancy word for farming
What is agriculture?
300
job of women in Paleolithic Age
What is gathering?
300
all civilizations have this in common
What is that they developed along rivers?
300
how herders and farmers helped each other
What is herders supplied farmers with meat and farmers supplied herders with grain?
300
use of new ideas and tools to do work
What is technology?
400
fancy word for "extra"
What is surplus?
400
long periods of extreme cold on Earth
What are the Ice Ages?
400
the part in the south where people moved after the soil wore out or they ran out of land
What is Sumer?
400
development of farming tools
What is digging stick, spade and hoe, foot plow, animal plow?
400
your mailing address
What is ANSWERS WILL VARY?!
500
banks of soil
What are levees?
500
THREE uses of fire in Paleolithic Age
What is cooking food, providing light, providing warmth, and scaring away animals? (3 out of 4 must be given)
500
where the world's first civilization developed
What is Mesopotamia?
500
ways levees allowed for water control
What is provided protection from floods and when holes were poked in them, water came through for crops?
500
three things necessary for civilization
What is surplus, specialization and cities?
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