Early Humans
People who hunt animals and gather plants for food are called.
What are Hunter-gatherers?
Farming began during this Age.
What is the Neolithic Age?
The word Mesopotamia means.
What is “Between rivers”?
This was the Sumerian system of writing.
What is Cuneiform?
This is who created the first empire in Mesopotamia.
Who is Sargon of Akkad?
Archaeologists and historians study these to learn about early humans.
What are fossils and artifacts?
Farming was important because.
What is it allowed people to produce their own food?
These two rivers surrounded Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
People who could read and write.
Who were scribes?
This is what Hammurabi was most famous for.
What was writing one of the first law codes — Hammurabi’s Code?
The Ice Ages were.
What are periods of extreme cold when ice covered much of Earth?
This is the term for taming plants and animals for human use?
What is Domestication?
This is why the river valleys were important for civilizations.
What is they provided water, fertile soil, travel, and trade?
One of the world’s oldest stories about a king.
What was the Epic of Gilgamesh?
This is where Assyria was located.
Where is Northern Mesopotamia?
One benefit of spoken language was.
What is it helped humans communicate and work together?
One benefit of a settled life is.
What is people could specialize in jobs like tool-making, weaving, or art?
A city-state is.
What is a city that controls the land around it and acts like its own country?
Some of math and science achievements the Sumerians made was.
What is a number system based on 60, 12-month calendar, and astronomy?
The capital of Assyria was.
What is Nineveh?
These are the materials early humans used to make tools and weapons.
What are stone, bone, and wood?
One way farming changed human society forever was.
What is it created permanent villages, population growth, and new jobs?
This was built in the center of each Sumerian city-state.
What is a ziggurat?
This is why writing important for civilization.
What is it allowed people to keep records of laws, trade, and history?
This king built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Who was Nebuchadnezzar?