Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
The First People
Studying Geography
Rise of Sumer
100

The study of the past.

What is history?

100

King of Uruk, a city-state in Sumer, he became a legendary figure in Sumerian literature.

Who is Gilgamesh?

100

They increased chances for survival for early humans.

What are tools?

100

The study of landforms, climate, and the environment.

What is physical geography?

100

They served as a representative to the gods.

What are priests?

200

The systematic study of past human life and culture by the recovery and examination of remaining material evidence, such as graves, buildings, tools, and pottery.

What is Archaeology?

200

A huge stone monument.

What is megaliths?

200

An early ancestor of humans.

What is hominid?

200

The study of places and the people that live in them.

What is geography?

200

To worship many gods.

What is polytheism?

300

The natural features of the earth's surface.

What are landforms?

300

The New Stone Age, when people learned to make fire and tools such as saws and drills.

What is Neolithic?

300

Another name for the Paleolithic era is ___________.

What is the Stone Age?

300

A story told by someone who was there.

What is primary source?

300

Sumerian working class.

What are farmers and laborers?

400

All the living and nonliving things that affect life in an area.

What is environment?

400

A mixture of fertile soil and tiny rocks that can make land ideal for farming.

What is silt?

400

Ancestor.

What is a relative who lived in the past?

400

The two main types of geography.

What are physical and human geography?

400

The world's first emperor. 

Who is Gilgamesh?

500
Another word for farming.

What is Agriculture?

500

A historical crescent-shape region in the Middle East.

What is the Fertile Crescent?

500

The time before there was writing.

What is prehistory?

500

Rivers, valleys, and mountains are examples of

What are landforms?

500

I am at the top of the social class.

What is I am a king?

M
e
n
u