A person who studies and writes about the human past.
What is historian?
100
People created many tools and were the first to use "technology" to aid them in survival therefore the the paleolithic age was commonly referred to as this.
What is The Stone Age?
100
Neolithic people changed the world by beginning this practice that is still used today to produce food.
What is farming?
100
This land was called the "Fertile Crescent" and its name means "the land between the rivers."
What is Mesopotamia?
100
This king set up the first set of laws ever written down.
Who is Hammurabi?
200
A scientist that hunts for evidence buried in the ground where settlements might have once been.
What is an archaeologist?
200
The key to the Paleolithic people surviving the ice was the manipulation of this element.
What is fire?
200
Neolithic people used to do this to animals so that hunting became obsolete.
What is domesticate?
200
Mesopotamia was the first known settlement and is located between these two rivers in what is now modern day Iraq.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
200
Hammurabi was ruled over all of Mesopotamia in this Great City.
What is Babylon?
300
A person that focuses on human society. They study how humans developed and how they relate to one another.
What is an anthropologist?
300
Paleolithic people used this method of obtaining food.
What is Hunting and gathering?
300
This was a practice that resulted from people being able to focus on just one skill now that everyone did not have to focus on food production.
What is specialization?
300
Early people built waterways and canals to guide water to their crops in a process called this.
What is Irrigation?
300
About 1,000 years after Hammurabi this group of people took control of Mesopotamia assembling the first large military force that used iron weapons.
Who are the Assyrians?
400
Weapons, tools, and other items made by humans that are left behind when a settlement is abandon.
What is artifacts?
400
Paleolithic people were constantly on the move in search of food therefore they are called this.
What is Nomads?
400
Neolithic people stopped making stone tools and began to use this metal mixture for stronger, sharper, more effective tools.
What is bronze?
400
Skilled workers that made products from metal, pottery, cloth, and other items were called this.
What is an Artisan?
400
These descendants of Babylon defeated the Assyrians for control of Mesopotamia in 605 B.C.
Who are the Chaldeans?
500
Traces of plants or animals that have been preserved in rock over millions of years.
What are fossils?
500
Any tool or object created by people that aids them in survival or gives them an unnatural advantage is called this.
What is technology?
500
This famous man was found frozen in the ice in exceptionally well preserved form in 1991.
Who is Otzi the "iceman"
500
The Sumerians were the first to create a writing form in Mesopotamia and they called it this.