Paleolithic Era
A group of people who hunt animals and search for plants to eat.
What is a hunter-gatherer?
The development of farming.
What is agriculture?
The reasons cities formed.
What is agriculture, settled communities and a growing population?
What early civilizations formed around.
What are river valleys (river systems)?
The Akkadian Empire.
What was the first empire in history?
A group of people who do not settle in one place, but move around to follow animals.
What is a nomad (nomadic people)?
Neolithic people lived in these instead of being nomadic.
What are settle, permanent communities?
Polytheism.
Major inventions/improvements of Sumerians.
What are the wheel, the plow and improved irrigation systems?
The differences between City-states and Empires.
City-states- independent cities with their own rulers, laws and governments.
Empires- large, diverse and made of multiple different cities
Ruled under one unified, absolute ruler (centralized government), and including a bureaucracy (government workers)
Paleolithic people buried their dead because of this spiritual belief.
What is an afterlife?
The development of new, specific jobs other than farming.
What is job specialization?
A government.
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What rivers did the river valley civilizations grow around?
Most powerful ruler of Babylon.
Who was King Hammurabi?
Tools in this era were made out of this.
What is stone?
Hierarchy (definition)
What is the separation of people based on the power and jobs they held in society?
A civilization.
What is a complex and well-organized society with a large number of people?
Ziggurats.
What were Sumerian religious structures called?
The reasons written laws are important.
To keep law and order and to bring justice to those who have been wronged.
What is a society where the people are mostly equal?
The use of animals for work and food (and pets!).
What is domestication?
The aspects of culture.
What are traditions, art, architecture and religion?
Cuneiform.
What was the first written language?
Everything to know about the Code of Hammurabi.
What was written by King Hammurabi in the Babylonian empire, has 282 laws and punishments, and was publicly posted on stone steles in each city?