Neolithic and Paleolithic
Mesopotamia
Early Mesopotamians
Mesoptamian Empires
Characteristics of Civilization
100
Two characteristics of Paleolithic people
What is hunter gatherers,lived in caves and rough tent-like structures, groups of 20 to 60 people who moved from place to place,jobs were finding enough food, rarely traded.
100
Caused people living in the foothill of the Zagros Mountains to move to the plains
What is food shortages?
100
A Greek word that means land between two rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
100
Three empires that ruled Mesopotamia after the Sumerians.
What is Akkadians, Babylonians and Assyrians?
100
The Sumerian invention of the plow could be classified as evidence these two characteristics of civilization.
What is stable food supply and technology?
200
Farming provided Neolithic people with a ____________
What is a stable food supply?
200
To resolve the uncontrolled water supply.
What is built levees and dams?
200
Two Sumerian inventions.
What is the wheel, the plow, the seed planter, cuneiform writing?
200
Wrote the first laws that applied to everyone.
Who is Hammurabi?
200
Three things that show the characteristic of "the arts" in ancient civilizations.
What is metal weapons and cups, mirrors, jewelry, musical instruments, paintings, and sculpture?
300
Learned about other groups, new resourses, and spread new ideas around the ancient world
What is Neolithic traders?
300
Levees, dams, reservoirs, and canals
What is irrigation systems?
300
Sumerians built these to protect themselves from attacks by other city-states.
What is walls and moats?
300
Two of the Assyrian's greatest achievements were________________.
What is the use of iron weapons, siege warfare, battering rams and wheeled towers?
300
Three things the king was responsible for that showed the establishment of government.
What is collected taxes, controlled the army, enforced laws, built temples, made sure irrigation systems were maintained?
400
Three characteristics of Neolithic civilizations were_________________.
What is stable food supple, permanent shelters, established communities, variety of jobs, or trade?
400
To build and maintain the canals and irrigation systems.
What is why people from different villages had to work together?
400
City-states fought over
What is water rights?
400
Women living in this empire had more rights than women living in most ancient societies.
What is Babylonian?
400
This part of social structure relates to peoples' importance.
What is status?
500
Two other terms for Paleolithic and Neolithic.
What is Old Stone Age and New Stone Age?
500
Mesopotamia was located between __________________.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
500
Where the Mesopotamians believed the gods lived.
What is ziggurats?
500
The reason the Assyrian Empire fell.
What is the army was spread too thin because the territory was so large?
500
The seven characteristics of civilization.
What is stable food supply, government, social structure, religion, the arts, technology, and written language?