Chapter 1
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
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What expert studies artifacts and written records to learn about how people lived in the past?
historian
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What is the business of farming called?
agriculture
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What is a city that has its own ruler and farmland?
city-state
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What is Sumerian writing called?
Cuneiform
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What is a large territory where several groups of people are ruled by a single government called?
empire
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What is an object made or used by people called? (studied by archaeologists)
artifacts
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training animals to be useful to humans is called
domestication
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What are the two rivers that flow through Mesopotamia?
Euphrates and Tigris Rivers
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Who is a person who writes cuneiform to record laws and records?
Scribe
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Who was the king of Babylon who created a detailed code of laws?
Hammurabi
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Which expert studies natural and human made features of the earth?
Geographer
300
What is having more than what you need called?
surplus
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What is the area called where cities first appeared?
Sumer
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What is the belief in more than one god called?
polytheism
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Which empire was known for the hanging gardens, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world?
Neo-Babylonia
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What is prehistory?
the time before written records
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What was the Neolithic Revolution?
The beginning of farming and domestication of animals.
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Who are the people who lived in southern Mesopotamia where the first citie appeared?
Sumerians
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What is the purpose of the staircase on the ziggurat?
To provide a way for the gods to get to earth
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Which empire created the world's first postal service?
Babylonia
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What is the difference between a primary and a secondary source?
A primary source was created during the time of study. The secondary source was created after the time of study.
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What ended the Neolithic age?
The use of metal for tools and weapons
500
What is the cradle of civilization called?
Fertile Crescent
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What is a culture marked by developments in arts, sciences, government and social structure called?
a civilization
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What is the guiding principle of Hammurabi's Code that calls for the punishment to be the same as the crime?
"an eye for an eye" justice
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