Vocabulary
Characteristics of a Civilization
Neolithic Era
Sumerians
The Akkadians & Hammurabi
100
a city with political & economic control over the surrounding country side.
What is a city-state?
100
Painting & making sculptures were developed to portray gods & goddesses for this characteristic.
What is Art?
100
This is the meaning of the word "Neolithic".
What is "New Stone" Age?
100
These pyramid like structures were made of terraces linked by ramps & stairs.
What are ziggurats?
100
He is the first ruler to organize and unite the city-states of Sumer and Mesopotamia under the Akkadian Empire
Who is Sargon?
200
a large political unit, usually under a single leader, that controls many peoples & territories.
What is an empire?
200
Used for record keeping & later on for creative expression.
What is Writing?
200
This over-production of crops gave rise to more population & cities.
What is surplus?
200
This is the meaning of Mesopotamia
What is the land between two rivers?
200
Under the Hammurabi Code, if a son strikes his father, he will receive this punishment.
What is get his hand cut off?
300
the way of life a people follow.
What is a culture?
300
Created to organize & regulate human activity, & to smooth interaction between individuals & groups.
What is Government?
300
This Neolithic village in modern day Turkey had 6000 inhabitants at its highest peak.
What is Catal Huyuk?
300
A man-made water system used to control flooding & feed crops.
What is irrigation?
300
The Akkadians, like the Sumerians before them, used a system of counting based on this number.
What is the number 60?
400
a complex culture in which large numbers of people share a number of common elements such as social structure, religion, & art.
What is a civilization?
400
Divided classes based on economic power.
What is Social Structure?
400
This era is characterized by the shift of hunting & gathering to this.
What is farming (or settling in villages)?
400
King like figure that ruled over city-states in Sumeria.
What is an ensi?
400
Babylonian king who codified his own set of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
500
the keeping of animals & the growing of food on a regular basis.
What is systematic agriculture?
500
Developed to explain the forces of nature & the fact of their own existence.
What is Religion?
500
Area in Northern Africa & the Middle East with fertile soil, gentle rains, & long springs & summers, which was ideal for farming.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
500
Paid by Sumerians to the government via labor, military time, or services.
What are taxes?
500
This Akkadian military strategy has soldiers protecting each other by forming a human wall of spears and shields.
What is a phalanx?
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