Hunter-Gatherers
What role did men and women both fill in hunter-gatherer societies?
Leaders
What is a water source in the middle of the desert?
Oasis
What is the word for a person who has no settled home and travels from place to place?
Nomad
What was Jericho known for that protected their society and water source?
Thick walls
What land is known as the "land between rivers"?
Mesopotamia
What continent did hunter-gatherers begin on?
Africa
What are tools/objects made by people?
Artifacts
This is the process of redirecting water from rivers/lakes to crops.
Irrigation
What happened to the settlement of Jericho?
It was abandoned
What was the black rock used as cutting tools and mirrors?
Obsidian
What was the average lifespan for hunter-gatherers?
20 years
What is society's unique way of doing things?
Culture
What is the word for breeding/raising animals for food and resources?
Domestication
What building did Ur build as a stepped tower to their gods?
Ziggurat
How did the people of Çatalhöyük enter their homes?
Through the roof
What did hunter-gatherers use to make spears, needles, and hooks?
Animal bones
What is the word for an animal or plant that has died out?
Extinct
What made pastoral societies different from hunter-gatherers?
Raising animals/livestock
Where was Çatalhöyük located?
What area of the world was the Fertile Crescent in?
Middle East/Africa
What is the Paleolithic Period known as? (Hint: it has to do with rocks!)
Old Stone Age
What was used to throw spears longer distances?
Atlatl
What is the science of growing crops and raising animals known as?
Agriculture
Where was Ur located?
Modern-day Iraq
What two rivers surrounded Mesopotamia?
Tigris and Euphrates