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Paleolithic People
Neolithic People
Sumerians
Mesopotamia
Inventions
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The location where the first hominids were found.
What is Africa
100
The oldest Neolithic community.
What is Jericho.
100
To tame animals for human use.
What is domesticate.
100
What was one of the first civilizations to start between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
What is Sumer.
100
What did the Sumerians invent allowing them to keep honest accounts and records of past evens.
What is cuneiform.
200
A person who hunts for buried evidence in the ground.
What is and Archaeologist.
200
tools and methods that help humans perform a task.
What is technology.
200
People began to focus on developing different jobs. This was a result of living in a settled community.
What is specialization.
200
complex society
What is civilization.
200
A discovery that allowed people to stay in one place and build a village without the fear of flooding and creating a steady water supply.
What is irrigation.
300
A person who studies how humans developed and how they relate to one another.
What is an anthropologist.
300
A life changing discovery made by these people.
What is the ability to tame fire.
300
This revolution began everywhere around the same time. Allowing people to sustain life, have stable diets and specialize.
What is farming.
300
People lived longer, populations increased throughout the world, and people began to live closer together because of this invention.
What is farming.
400
A person who moves from place to place in order to hunt and gather food.
What is a nomad.
400
What adaptation made it possible for people to survive the Ice age.
What is the use of animal furs for clothing.
400
Who was part of the Sumerian upper class.
What is Kings, priests, warriors.
400
What forced people to follow the law and treat each other well.
What is Hammurabi's code.
400
This was a system of walls, dams, canals, allowing people and farmers to have water at any given time. This also kept villages from flooding.
What is irrigation.
500
An age where people developed tools made of stone.
What is the Stone Age.
500
What was the biggest contribution of the Paleolithic people.
What is the development of spoken language.
500
King Sargon I and the Akkadians easily conquered Sumer's city states because they didn't have a united ____ and ____? 2 parts
What is military and individual governments.
500
Mesopotamia is often referred to under another name because they were the first to begin living in complex societies.
What is "Cradle of Civilization".
500
A "hill of heaven" built to please the gods.
What is a ziggurat.