Agriculture
Another name for farming
What is agriculture
Wedge-shaped writing made on damp clay tablets
What is cuneiform?
Pyramid-shaped temples built by the Sumerians to honor their gods
What are ziggurats?
2000 B.C. means
What is two thousand years Before Christ?
What is A?
A land of rich soil that got it's name because of its shape
What is Fertile Crescent
People skilled at specific jobs which helped their community
What is specialization of labor?
Belief in more than one god
What is polytheism?
C.E. stands for
What is Common Era?
Location of the Fertile Crescent. (Use map provided)
What is F?
Watering crops is
Before history was written down
What is prehistoric?
Religion beginning in Mesopotamia that was monotheistic
A.D. stand for
What is Anno Domini?
Location of the Persian Gulf. (Use map provided)
What is C?
People who traveled with their flock
Who were nomads?
Belief in one god
What is monotheism?
Town/city that has its own King/leader and army
What is a city/state?
B.C.E. means
Before Common Era (sometimes used instead of B.C.)
Location of the Red Sea (Use map provided)
What is B?
When more grain was harvested than needed, the extra was called
What is surplus?
Fine particles of dirt left from river flooding
What is silt?
Time when people in southwestern Asia began settlements-Mesopotamia
What is 5000 B.C. ?
Anno Domini means
What is "In the year of our Lord"?
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?