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Section 1 Vocab
Section 2 Vocab
Early Man
Mesopotamia
RANDOM
100
Fossil
traces of plants or animals preserved in rock
100
Sumerian system of writing
Cuneiform
100
Times of extreme cold when great sheets of ice covered parts of the earth were the
Ice Ages
100
Today Mesopotamia is the country of ________
Iraq
100
Using artificial means of bringing water to crops
irrigation
200
Artifacts
Things that are left behind by humans long ago
200
The sumerians built a temple called a ______ to honor their gods
Ziggurat
200
TRUE or FALSE: Language and fire were developed in the NEOLITHIC age
False
200
Name the two rivers Mesopotamia lies between
Tigris & Euphrates
200
One reason why flooding is GOOD One reason why flooding is BAD
Renourishes the land Wipes away crops UNPREDICTABLE
300
"Old Stone Age" = Paleolithic or Neolithic?
Paleolithic
300
Being good at one job
Specialized
300
the ability to tame animals and plants for use at home is called?
domesticate
300
Hammurabi ruled over the empire of ...
Babylon
300
Mesopotamian cities, also called ______ were more like small countries
City States
400
"New Stone Age" = Paleolithic or Neolithic?
Neolithic
400
something that helps humans accomplish a task
Technology
400
A person who studies about the past is called...
A Historian
400
"Mesopotamia" means ______
Land between two rivers
400
The first civilizations began ________ because the conditions for farming were good.
in river valleys
500
People who travel to find food, have no real home
Nomad
500
A group of many lands under one ruler
Empire
500
what allowed people of the Neolithic Age to settle down into villages?
farming
500
Polytheism is the _______
belief in many gods
500
List 3 Sumerian inventions
Sailboat Plow Wheel