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The source of life
Where would we be?
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100
This refers to complex societies that have the ability to consistently produce surplus food and allows people to specialize in non-agricultural work.
What is a civilization?
100
This is when the last ice age ended
What is 15000 BCE?
100
Mesopotamia means this in Greek
What is land between two rivers?
100
his Sumerian invention can be said to be one of the greatest inventions ever created
What is the wheel?
100
Men had to do this before they could settle down in one place
What is domesticate plants and animals?
200
This is the reason why the major ancient civilizations developed in river valleys
What is because these floodplains contained rich soil and the rivers provided irrigation for crops and means of transportation?
200
This was one of the main unifying elements in early civilizations that still unifies some people today
What is religion?
200
This river is what the Tigris and Euphrates join together to form
What is the Shatt-al-Arab River?
200
This is what the Sumerian writing is called
What is cuneiform?
200
Emmer wheat and this other grain were two of the first to be domesticated in Mesopotamia
What is einkorn wheat?
300
These are the four major ancient civilizations
What are Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus Valley, and China?
300
This is one of the reasons why religion played such an important role in the growth of villages into city-states?
What is because as the populations grew, people could find common ground in their beliefs and therefore build mutual respect and trust?
300
The single river that the Tigris and Euphrates becomes empties into this gulf
What is the Persian Gulf?
300
These two inventions helped farmers
What is the plow to work the land and the windmill to help irrigate?
300
In order to be able to settle down farther from the rivers, Mesopotamians invented this
What is irrigation and canals?
400
These are today’s countries which were part of Ancient Mesopotamia
What are Iraq, parts of Syria, Iran, and Turkey?
400
This is the approximate year in which civilization started in ancient Mesopotamia- basically when men started farming
What is in 9500 BCE?
400
This is the reason why the Tigris and Euphrates flood twice a year
What is because the rivers swell from melting winter snow and from spring rains?
400
This is the first code of laws ever written
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
400
Because of the invention of agriculture this started to increase
What is the population?
500
These are the rivers in all four major ancient civilizations
What are the Tigris and Euphrates in Mesopotamia, the Nile in Egypt, the Indus in India/Pakistan, and the Yellow River in China?
500
This is the explanation some historians use for why men started to farm at around 9500 BCE
What is because at the end of the last ice age all the ice melted and made the land more fertile?
500
This is the reason why today the Persian Gulf coastline is 155 miles farther south than it was in ancient Mesopotamia
What is because the sediments from the flooded rivers has washed downstream and deposited at the head of the Persian Gulf through out centuries?
500
We use this Sumerian invention to keep up with dates
What is the calendar?
500
Once men began farming, they were able to start producing other items and could now do this
What is trade with other groups?