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Historical Vocabulary
Ancient Civilizations
Ancient Civilizations #2
Early Life
Grab Bag
100
Any surviving object made by early people
What is an ARTIFACT
100
The plow and the Wheel
The Sumerians invented
100
Continent where the earliest humanlike remains have been found.
What is AFRICA
100
Some of the Earliest WAYS early man got its food in order to survive (name 2)
What is HUNTING, GATHERING
100
The belief of many gods.
What is Polytheism?
200
The remains of living things (plants, animals, people)
What are FOSSILS
200
Iron and the chariot
Hittites invented
200
- allowed for a surplus of food - Hunters and Gatherers settled next to the river -due to a surplus of food, job specialization was developing
How did the Agricultural Revolution change how people lived?
200
Resource used for protection, cooking, and as a weapon.
What is FIRE
200
The belief in one god
What is monotheistic?
300
The land between two rivers
What does Mesopotamia mean
300
Stone tools were used for hunting and killing their prey, to make weapons, to make fire
Stone tools
300
1. Ziggurats 2. to be closer to the gods and to house the priests
1. The temples of the Sumerians were known as? 2. What was their purpose?
300
Scientists believe that humans migrated from Africa to other continents during this time.
What is the ICE AGE
300
Cuneiform
What was the first form of writing?
400
A person who studies people and culture
What is an Anthropologist
400
Pottery
What did the Assyrians invent?
400
Hammurabi
Who was the king of Babylon?
400
During the ice age, to find food and shelter away from the cold by walking over land bridges.
Early Human Migration
400
An organized government, writing system, surplus of food, job specialization, cities
What do you need in order to have a civilization?
500
Went from hunting and gathering to farming; agriculture, permanent settlement
Neolithic Revolution
500
Merchants that invented the alphabet
The Phoenicians were _________ and invented the ______.
500
Burning their crops
The Assyrians used this method to terrorize their enemies
500
A myth
What is an Epic?
500
People who move from place to place in search of food, shelter, etc.
What is NOMAD