Early History
The time period classified before agriculture.
What is the Paleolithic era?
This type of farming helped Early Chinese civilizations grow food.
What is terrace farming?
Eye
Extra food produced
Surplus
This common geographic feature led to the earliest settlements of civilization.
What are rivers/water/oceans/anything that means water?
This innovation helped build early houses
What is mud-bricking?
How many laws does Hammurabi's Code have?
282
a member of a community that moves from place to place in search of food
nomad
Groups of people who would travel from place to place in search of food.
What are nomads?
Early civilizations developed this innovation to get access to water.
What is irrigation?
According to Hammurabi's Code, what punishment was prescribed for a woman accused of adultery?
Cast into water (drowned)
relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia
cuneiform
These are the things historians use to study the Paleolithic Era.
artifacts, fossils
These two Rivers helped established the first civilizations
What is the Tigris and Euphrates?
What language was Hammurabi's Code written in?
Cuneiform
the process of taming an animal and keeping it as a pet or on a farm
domestication
The turning point in human history that allowed humans to grow food instead of hunt and gather.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
This was the first law system in place known to human history, it discussed crime and punishments.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
Hammurabi's Code was inscribed on...
Stone steles
the science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops
agriculture