PreHistory Vocab
The time before humans invented writing
Early people sharpened ____ to make tools for cutting and hunting
What are stones or rocks?
Belief or worship in more than one god
what is Polytheism
Three countries that are in the place of where Mesopotamia used to be
Turkey, Syria and Iraq
The Sumerians used the ______ system for counting
Sexasgisimal
A person who lives by hunting animals and gathering plants
Hunter Gatherer
True or false: Paleolithic people lived in small villages in caves?
FALSE! They camped in the open or found shelter in caves or rocks.
The Sumerian Writing System
The Sumerians were the first to use the _______ for transportation
what is the wheel
What did the Sumerians do with the extra food and goods they produced?
The sold and traded it
an object made by a human being
What is an Artifact?
Two ways that fire revolutionized cooking
Made chewing/eating food easier, made food taste better, killed bacteria from raw meats.
A geographical area of fertile land stretching from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
Fertile Crescent
The King who conquered all of the Sumerian cities
Who is King Sargon
What is the biggest ocean in the world?
The Pacific Ocean
beliefs, customs, traditions, and behavior of a nation or a group of people
_______________ allowed people to have specific jobs- such as farmers, carpenters, butchers
What is specialization
The process of supplying water to areas of land to make them more suitable for growing crops
Irrigation
The first tools and weapons made of medal were made in Mesopotamia ________ years ago
7,000
What country would you find the ancient city of Machu Picchu?
Peru
the study of humankind in all aspects especially development and culture.
What is anthropology?
Super Bonus Question: What does domestication of plants and animals mean?
People make animals work for them, they grow crops- they control the amount of animals they raise and crops they grow.
a large temple built by the Sumerians
Ziggurat
______ and _____ Made it possible for people to stop wandering and settle in one place
farming and raising livestock
China