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Examples of these include pottery, sculpture, weapons, tools, etc.
What are artifacts?
100
These are people who travel from place to place in search of food and shelter.
What are nomads?
100
The city of Ur was located in what specific (ancient) region of the world.
What is Mesopotamia or Sumer?
100
An arc of nutrient-rich land in the Middle East.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
100
This river was the lifeblood of ancient Egypt.
What is the Nile?
200
The discovery of this hominid by Donald Johanson changed everything we previously knew about our evolution.
Who is Lucy?
200
Bring animals or plants under human control.
What is domestication?
200
These are professional record keepers.
What are scribes?
200
This functioned much like an independent country does today.
What is a city-state?
200
The name given to writing that uses pictures and symbols.
What is hieroglyphics?
300
The name given to modern humans.
What is Home erectus
300
Two of the four places in which agriculture first developed in the world.
Where is Africa, China, Central America or Mexico, Peru?
300
The exchanging of goods in place of money.
What is bartering?
300
Sargon had been the ruler of what city-state before establishing an empire.
What was Akkad?
300
This Egyptian god guided the deceased through the Underworld.
Who is Anubis?
400
This is the approximate age of our earliest ancestors.
What is 6-7 million years old?
400
He hypothesized that the earliest farming community arose at Jarmo in the Zagros Mountains.
Who was Robert Braidwood?
400
A long lasting pattern of organization.
What is an institution?
400
This brings together previously independent states under the umbrella of one ruler.
What is an empire?
400
A government ruled by religious authorities.
What is a theocracy?
500
The location where Neanderthals were discovered.
What is the Neander Valley?
500
Catal Huyuk was located in this modern-day country. (For an additional 500 points, what present-day city is home to Catal Huyuk?)
What is Turkey?
500
The five characteristics of civilization.
What are Advanced Cities Advanced Technology Complex Institutions Record Keeping Specialized Workers
500
This is the number of laws provided by the Code of Hammurabi.
What is 282?
500
This historian detailed the process of mummification in Egyptian society.
Who was Herodotus?