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The study of past societies through analysis of what people left behind.
What is Archaeology
The way of life a people follows.
What is culture.
Early civilizations lived this form of lifestyle as they would follow their food source(s)
What is Nomadic
Mesopotamia is also referred to as this
Land Between the Lakes
Sumerians were also responsible for this invention that drastically changed transportation
What is the wheel
The study of human life and culture.
What is Anthropology
A complex culture in which large numbers of people share a number of common elements such as social structure, religion, and art.
What is a Civilization
The switch from a mobile lifestyle to a more permanent civilization was in part due to this event as crops were being planted.
What is the Agriculture Revolution.
Mesopotamia is also part of the Fertile ___________.
What is the Fertile Crescent
Sumerians developed a number system based around this number.
What is sixty
A humanlike creature that walked upright. The earliest of which will live in Africa
What is a Hominid
A state with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside.
What is a city-state
Stone, Copper, and this other metal were used to help identify the Stone Age Period
What is Bronze
Many Mesopotamian Civilizations believed in many gods - meaning they were this.
What is Polytheistic
A form of government established by Divine authority.
What is a Theocracy
The shift from hunting of animals and the gathering of food to the keeping of animals and the growing of food.
What is Systematic Agriculture
A type of hard stone used for tools such as hand axes.
What is flint
These characteristics help identify civilizations. (name 2)
cities, government, religion, social structure, writing, and art.
A massive stepped tower on which was built a temple dedicated to the chief god or goddess of a Sumerian City
What is a ziggurat
This was the first metal to be used in making tools.
What is copper
A skilled worker who makes products such as weapons and jewelry.
Who is an Artisan.
The use of this occurred approximately 50,000 years ago and changed the way of preparing food, etc.
What is fire.
These important and powerful people supervised rituals aimed at pleasing the gods/goddesses.
Who is a priest.
This was a wedge shaped system of writing developed by the Sumerians using a reed stylus to create wedge-shaped impressions on a clay tablet.
What is Cuneiform
Assyria, Akkad, and ______________ are part of the three general areas of Mesopotamia.
Where is Sumer