Finding Stuff
Wondering Category
City Living Category
Sumer Category
Babo
100
"Pre-History" means before what
What is Writing
100
The 1st known humans were known as _______/_______ because they did not know how to farm.
What is hunter/gatherers
100
What is an advanced city?
What is the center of trade for that region
100
The fertile crescent is "fertile" because of what reason.
What is the ability to grow agriculture.
100
Babylon was located in what area of the "middle east"?
What is Mesopotamia
200
This is something "non-living" that is excavated from past settlements
What is an artifact
200
If you roam from place to place looking for food you are known as a ________
What is a nomad
200
What was an artisan?
What is a skilled worker who made goods by hand (tools, weapons, pottery, jewelry)
200
Mesopotamia is between what two rivers?
What is the Tigris and the Euphrates
200
What was the name of the great ruler of Babylon (came up with a list of "codes")
What is Hammurabi
300
This is the name of a person that studies artifacts and determines information about a settlement
What is an anthropologist
300
The time period shift from nomadic life to farming is known as what?
What is the Paleolithic or Agricultural Revolution
300
What was the name of the centers for governments and religion?
What is a temple
300
Give 3 contributions did the Sumerians contribute to society
What are the wheel, sail, irrigation, number system, or astronomy.
300
The process of a new idea or a product spreading from one culture to another is known as what?
What is Cultural Diffusion.
400
An anthropologist's job is to recreate early people's ______ behavior.
What is culture or cultural
400
What two things allowed for the agricultural revolution to be successful?
What is the increased knowledge of tools and the increased temperature of the earth.
400
Cuneiform was the 1st form of writing. What was the name for the Sumerian record keepers?
What is a scribe
400
How many characters were in the Sumerian cuneiform system of writing?
What is 550
400
A government that is ruled by a leader whose rule becomes hereditary-passed from father to son-is known as what?
What is a kingdom
500
A person's culture include a people's _______, ________, ______, and _____
What is diet, beliefs, language, and art
500
What were three outcomes of the agricultural revolution?
What is the population increased, animals were domesticated, civilizations became complex, and a division of labor. (just need 3)
500
The wheel, plow, and the potters wheel are all examples of what?
What is advanced technology
500
What year did the Sumerians establish their civilization?
What is 4000 B.C.
500
Hammurabi's code was carved on a stele. It was meant to look like a what?
What is a finger
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