Geography
Agriculture
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Basic Vocab
Grab Bag!
100
This word means: the land between 2 rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
100
This is the meaning of agriculture.
What is farming?
100
This is the name of the writing system Sumerians created.
What is Cuneiform?
100
This means to move from place to place.
What is migrate?
100
This is the reason humans went from nomadic hunters and gatherers to building permanent towns.
What is agriculture?
200
These are the 2 rivers Mesopotamia is between.
What is the Tigris (on top!) and Euphrates Rivers.
200
This word means to keep plants or animals for usage by humans.
What is domestication?
200
This was the first written laws, for example: An eye for an eye.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
200
A diary, journal, letters or a picture is an example of this type of source.
What is a Primary Source?
200
This is why early humans migrated from Africa to other parts of the world.
What is searching for new hunting areas and food?
300
This area is an arc of rich farmland.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
300
This is how agriculture affected human populations.
What is humans had a reliable food source so their populations increased?
300
The creation of this helped humans to distribute food, hunt more efficiently and make relationships.
What is Language?
300
This an object that was created or used by humans.
What is an Artifact?
300
This is when a society creates specialized jobs because there is a surplus of food.
What is Division of Labor?
400
This is the modern country which Mesopotamia is in.
What is Iraq?
400
These are the reasons that humans built their towns next to rivers.
What is to have water for farming, drinking and to move from place to place?
400
This is how farmers provided water to their crops.
What is Irrigation?
400
This is the study of the past.
What is History?
400
This is how polytheism (most of Mesopotamians) is different from monotheism (Hebrews).
What is polytheism believes in many gods and monotheism believes in just one god?
500
The study of the earth's physical and cultural characteristics.
What is Geography?
500
This is how early humans got food BEFORE they invented agriculture.
What is hunting and gathering?
500
This is how Phoenician traders contributed to our lives today.
What is they spread the alphabet?
500
An example of this type of source would be a textbook, newspaper article or magazine.
What is a Secondary Source?
500
This is what people are able to do when they have a surplus of goods and need resources they do not have.
What is Trade or exchange goods?
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