Studying The Past
What is the vocabulary term for the study of humans, past and present?
Anthropology.
Sumer.
This advancement was created to prevent flooding.
Walls/Dams/Dikes.
What is the biggest change that took place in the Neolithic Revolution?
People began to grow crops and living in one place.
What are objects that are made by humans?
Artifacts. (Examples are clothing, coins, artwork, and grave sites.)
What are the two aquatic landforms that allowed people to settle in Sumer?
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What new development allowed for the Sumerians to track their history?
Writing.
What is the term for early writing, that used symbols in the place of words?
Cuneiform or Pictograms/graphs.
The study of past people, through their material remains.
Archaeology.
These pyramid shaped temple were in Sumerian cities.
Ziggurat.
This group of people specialized in keeping written records.
Scribes.
After learning to farm and settling in cities, what did people begin for develop with their excess food?
Surpluses.
What early religion believed that spirits inhabited animals, plants, or other natural objects?
Animism.
What were the temples in Sumer often dedicated to. Be specific.
One temple for their primary god, and several others for the other gods.
This advancement made watering crops much easier.
Irrigation.
What are the two terms for religions that mean belief in one or multiple gods?
Mono and Polytheism.
This archaeologist found the skeleton named "Lucy".
Donald Johanson.
What three cities were located in Sumer?
Adab, Ur, and Uruk.
What are the seven features of successful early civilizations?
This term is for the spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one group of people to another.
Cultural Diffusion.