The four continents that are part of the Eastern Hemisphere.
What are Africa, Asia, Europe and Australia?
100
These simple tools were used by early hominids for about 2 million years.
What are choppers?
100
Sumer arose from between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
100
Babylon became the capital of an empire that included most of the land in the area also known as the fertile crescent.
What is Mesopotamia?
100
The Akkadian leader who ended the peaceful co-existance between Sumer and Akkad.
Who is Sargon?
200
The imaginary line that divides the planet Earth in half into Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the equator?
200
Middle part of the stone age when hominids used chipped stone tools.
What is the Mesolithic Era?
200
One of the greatest Sumerian kings whose search for immortality was written down in cuneiform.
Who is Gilgamesh?
200
The greatest leader of the Babylonians who wrote down the laws for all to see.
Who is Hammurabi?
200
the military campaigns of the Akkadian kings were dictated primarily by these interests as the king needed merchandise, money, and gold in order to finance wars, buildings, and the system of administration that he had instituted.
What is trade?
300
The imaginary line that divides the planet Earth in half into the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian?
300
The end of this period forced hominids to move.
What is the Ice Age.
300
Sumer was made up of these types of settlements.
What are City-States?
300
Collection of 282 laws, written by scribes on 12 tablets in Akkadian, the daily language of Babylon, and could therefore be read by any literate person in the city.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
300
The language in which people of Akkad wrote besides Sumerian.
What is Akkadian?
400
The two main branches of geography.
What is physical and human geography?
400
This is the time hunting and gathering was changed to permanent settlements.
What is the Neolithic Era?
400
Priests, Upper Class, Lower Class, Slaves.
What is the social hierarchy of Ancient Sumer?
400
The advances in these two subjects led to the creation of a near perfect calendar and the method of time we still use today based on the number 60.
What is mathematics and astronomy?
400
After the death of Sargon, Akkad became weak and fell to this City-State that brought back the return to strength of the Sumerians.
What is the City-State of Ur?
500
Geography is considered this type of science because it deals with people and how they live.
What is social science.
500
People in the New Stone Age had a change in their relationship to plants and animals because of these two conditions.
What are climate change and human inventions (innovations).
500
The main reason City-States of Sumer fought each other.
What is gain more farmland.
500
The people who with new military skills and iron weapons overthrew the Babylonian Empire.