Early Humans
Historians call this the early period of human history.
What is the Old Stone Age?
People who study human society.
Who are anthropologist?
A form of writing developed by the people of Sumer.
What is cuneiform?
First civilizations arose near these two rivers.
What are the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers?
The Chaldean King most famous for his accomplishment of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Who is King Nebuchadnezzar?
Paleolithic people lived in this time period.
What is the Old Stone Age?
Evidence of early weapons, tools, or other things made by humans.
What are artifacts?
A method developed to bring water to crops.
What is irrigation?
An area of good farmland was also known as the __________.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
King of the Akkadians who's conquests created the world's first empire.
Who is King Sargon?
This revolutionary change took place during the Neolithic Age.
What is farming?
Person or persons who move from place to place regularly.
Who are nomads?
Greek meaning for "land between the rivers".
What is Mesopotamia?
Babylon was located on the major trade route between this Gulf and this Sea.
What is the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea?
The 6th King of Babylon who is best know for his Code of Laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
These were the most important technologies used by the Paleolithic people.
What are tools?
People who hunt and search for evidence of human settlements.
Who are archeologist?
Early complex societies that had organized governments, culture, and writing.
What are city-states?
Hammurabi wanted to control this river because it provided water Babylon's farms.
What is the Euphrates River?
The last of the great kings of Assyria who best known for his vast library at Nineveh.
Who is Ashurbanipal?
People had to adapt to this in the early Stone age.
What is environment?
Preserved remains of plants and animals.
What are fossils?
Sumerians who learned how to write often became __________.
What is a scribe?
The __________ in Babylon are known as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
What are the Hanging Gardens?
Sumerian King who wished to become immortal and also had super human strength?
Who is Gilgamesh?