Hunter-Gatherer Societies
Two food sources for Hunter-Gatherers were...
What are animals, plants, fruits, or nuts?
These two rivers were essential to Mesopotamian civilization.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
The river that provided water, fertile soil, and transportation in Egypt.
What is the Nile?
Kush was located south of this famous civilization.
What is Egypt?
Geography is important because it shaped _____ in early civilizations.
What is where people settled? How they lived? Or farm and trade?
Instead of staying in one place, hunter-gatherers...
What is were mobile?
The system of writing developed in Mesopotamia was called…
What is cuneiform?
Egyptian rulers who were considered both kings and gods.
Who are pharoahs?
Kush traded with and sometimes ruled this neighboring civilization.
What is Egypt?
This is one element of culture.
What is Social organization, Customs & Traditions, Language, Arts & Literature, Religion, Form of Government, or Economic Systems?
This tool could be used to hunt animals of defend themselves.
What is a spear?
Mesopotamians built these stepped temples in the center of their cities.
What are ziggurats?
Egyptians wrote using these symbols.
What are hieroglyphics?
European historians often ignored African civilizations, making Kush a…?
What is a "lost" civilization?
This is one of the five themes of geography.
What is location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, or region?
This discovery not only provided warmth and protection but also became a social and cultural center for early human groups.
What is fire?
One Mesopotamian invention that changed transportation and farming.
What is the wheel (or plow, or sailboat, or irrigation system)?
Egyptians built these enormous tombs for their pharaohs.
What are pyramids?
These natural resources helped Kush become powerful.
What is gold or iron?
Hunter-gatherers moved from place to place following food. This is the main reason permanent settlements became possible.
What is farming/agriculture?
Hunter-gatherers’ culture was simple and passed down mainly by…
What is oral tradition?
Mesopotamia was made up of city-states ruled by these leaders.
Who are kings?
This was a collection of spells and prayers meant to guide the dead safely through the afterlife and help them reach the Field of Reeds.
What is the Book of the Dead?
This river, like Egypt, was central to Kush’s success.
What is the Nile?
When people started farming and staying in one place, they could develop other parts of culture, like government, art, and trade. This shift was called _____.
What is the agricultural revolution?