Vocabulary Part 1
An arc shaped region in South West Asia with rich soil
Fertile Crescent
A person who makes money by selling goods
Merchant
The business of farming; growing crops
Agriculture
A society marked by developed arts
Civilization
A wall of earth built to prevent a river from flooding its anks
Levee
A person who moves from place to place
A craftsperson
Arrtisan
Something used to fulfill a need
Resource
The use of tools and other inventions for practical purposes
Technology
business of buying and selling, or exchanging items
trade
Fine particles of rock
silt
A person who writes
Scribe
An early, small and independent city
City-State
The way a civilization is organized
Social Structure
This is where you train wild animals to be useful to humans
Domesticate
Geographic area located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Mesopotamia
A characteristic of civilization that includes beliefs and behaviors
Cities first appeared here
Sumer
Writing that uses wedge shaped Characters
Cuneiforms
Means of supplying water to land
Irrigation
First period of the stone age
Paleolithic Age
A symbol that stands for an object
Pictograph
Later part of the stone age
Neolithic Age
Ancient Mesopotamian temple
Ziggurat
Neolithic town discovered in central Turkery
Catal Hoyuk