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Paleolithic Times
Neolithic Times
Mesopotamian Civilizations
The First Empires
Vocabulary
100
Paleolithic people did this for food.
What is hunting and gathering?
100
The Neolithic Age started after the ____________________ ended.
What is the Ice Age?
100
Complex societies that have organized government, religion, art, class divisions, and a writing system.
What is civilization?
100
A group of many different lands under one ruler.
What is an empire?
100
People who write and study about human past.
Who are historians?
200
The Paleolithic people did what for art?
What is cave painting?
200
Shelter of the Neolithic people.
What are mud-brick homes?
200
Mesopotamia is located between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
200
______________ had a very strong army, and was able to conquer Mesopotamia.
What is Assyria?
200
Weapons, tools, and other things made by humans in the past.
What are artifacts?
300
Paleolithic in the Greek language means what?
What is Old Stone?
300
People around the world discovered _______________ during the Neolithic Age. This was a new way to produce food for themselves.
What is farming?
300
People in Mesopotamia began to use ______________ to water their crops.
What is irrigation?
300
Political districts that were divided by the king.
What are provinces?
300
People who hunt for evidence buried in the ground where settlements might once have been.
Who are archeologists?
400
Paleolithic people were the first people to use _____________________, which are tools and methods to help humans perform tasks.
What is technology?
400
In the Neolithic Age, people began to tame, or ___________________ plants and animals for their use.
What is domesticate?
400
____________ were people in Mesopotamia that were skilled in making pottery, cloth, metal, or worked as traders.
Who is an artisan?
400
King Nebuchadnezzar had _______________________ built for his wife.
What are the Hanging Gardens?
400
People who focus on human society. They study how humans developed and how they related to one another.
Who are anthropologists?
500
The Paleolithic people lived through long periods of extreme cold, called the ____________________.
What is the Ice Age?
500
People in the Neolithic Age began to practice________________, or the development of different kinds of jobs.
What is specialization?
500
__________________ was writing that consisted of making wedge-shaped marks in clay tablets, which was usually done by _______________.
What is cuneiform? Who are scibes?
500
A group of traveling merchants.
What is a caravan?
500
To tame animals or plants for human use.
What is domesticate?