Vocabulary
Planting seeds to grow crops; farming
What is agriculture
extra; more than what is needed or used
What is surplus
How people in the Paleolithic Era got food
What is hunting and gathering
How people in the Neolithic Era got food
farming or agriculture
The written set of laws of Mesopotamia
What is the Code of Hammurabi
Human history before written records
A place where people establish a community
What is a settlement
What are nomads
How people in the Neolithic Revolution lived
permanent settlements or villages
Punishments in the Code of Hammurabi are based on...
social class
A person who moves from one place to another following food sources
What is a nomad
The written laws of Mesopotamia
What is The Code of Hammurabi?
Give 3 examples of Paleolithic innovations
simple tools made of stone
fire
spoken language
What problems arose from hunting for food?
the food supply was unstable
overhunting led to extinction of species
Features of a Civilzation include:
specialized labor
system of writing
government
The natural parts of the Earth's surface that shape how humans live, travel and build civilizations
What is geography
The process of changing a wild plant or animal to be controlled by humans
True or False:
The Paleolithic Era was BEFORE the Neolithic Era
True
The geographic feature that all early civilizations developed along
What is a river
One result of agriculture:
surplus food
population increased
civilizations developed
The movement of people or animals from one place to another to live
What is migration
A complex society in which a large number of people live
What is a civilization
What is Africa
On what continent were the first river valley civilizations
Asia
The 2 rivers that run through the ancient Mesopotamian civilization
What is the Tigris and Euphrates