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Prehistoric People
Sumer
Mesopotamia
Egypt
100
These people invaded and ruled Egypt from about 1640 to about 1570 B.C.
Who are the Hyksos?
100
Humans did this to animals to increase their food and material supply.
What is domestication?
100
This is where some people in Sumer that had surplus food could develop skills in a specific kind of work.
What is specialization?
100
This was a pyramid-shaped building and the center of a Sumerian city-state.
What is a ziggurat?
100
This man was the step-son and nephew of Hatshepsut at the same time.
Who is Thutmose III?
200
These kind of people move from place to place searching for food and resources.
Who are nomads?
200
This was when humans changed from being hunter-gatherers to farmers.
What is Neolithic Revolution?
200
This is a long-lasting pattern of organization in a community.
What is an institution?
200
This is an economic transaction using items instead of money.
What is barter?
200
Ancient Egyptian religion was this because they believed in many gods and goddesses.
What is polytheism?
300
These people are professional record keepers and know how to write.
Who are scribes?
300
Some people did this to clear a field which involved cutting down trees and brush and using fire.
What is slash-and-burn farming?
300
Mesopotamia is an ancient Greek word that means this.
What is "land between the rivers"?
300
This is a series of rulers from the same family.
What is a dynasty?
300
New Kingdom pharaohs made war against this empire.
What is the Hittite Empire?
400
This man created the world's first empire.
Who is Sargon?
400
People who became farmers first settled in these geographical locations.
What are river valleys?
400
These are the two rivers that flow through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
400
This type of writing was lines pressed into soft clay using a wedge-shaped stick.
What is cuneiform?
500
This man was Hatshepsut's nephew and step-son at the same time.
Who is Thutmose III?
500
The global rise of this probably was the single greatest factor for causing the Agricultural Revolution.
What is temperature?
500
Sumerians did this to solve the problem of few natural resources.
What is trade?
500
Hammurabi was a Babylonian emperor whose greatest legacy was this.
What is Hammurabi's Code? (law code)
500
Egyptians wrote on this which was made from a plant growing in the Nile River.
What is papyrus?