What was the name of the land bridge that connected Asia to North America during the Ice Age?
Beringia
100
What terms means a way of supplying water to an area of land
irrigation
100
What was the name of the architecture where the people of Mesopotamia went to worship their gods?
Ziggurat
100
Which region of the world was Judaism founded in?
Mesopotamia
100
Who was the founder of Judaism?
Abraham
200
What term means moving from place to place with no permanent home
nomadic OR migration
200
What is the process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans, examples include cows, pigs, gardens, wheat fields, oxen, etc.
domestication
200
What term means the belief in more than one god
polytheism
200
Which group of people who lived in the areas of Mesopotamia and Egypt first founded the religion of Judaism. DO NOT say the individual's name who was the founder.
Hebrews
200
Who wrote a code of laws for the people of Babylon that influenced later laws codes where citizens knew the laws and punishments for breaking the laws?
Hammurabi
300
What was the time period until 10,000 years ago where people used stone tools.
Old Stone Age or Stone Age
300
What is the term where worker has a specific task or job to do.
specialization OR division of labor
300
What was the writing system of Mesopotamia?
cuneiform
300
What term means the belief in only one god.
monotheism
300
In hunter-gatherer societies, who was responsible for hunting large animals in large groups of people?
men
400
Who were the people who hunted animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts to survive during the Old Stone Age.
hunter-gatherers
400
What did hunter-gatherers have to discover in order to stop hunting and gathering and settle in one place?
agriculture
400
Name the rivers where Mesopotamia was located.
Tigris and Euphrates
400
What is the term used to describe the scattering of Jews out of Mesopotamia due to being conquered by empires such as the Romans and Persians?
Diaspora
400
In hunter-gatherer societies, who was responsible for gathering nuts and berries, tending the fire, and taking care of the children?
women
500
List one technological advance of hunter-gatherers during the Old Stone Age
fire, cave art, stone tools
500
Once a civilization has agriculture + irrigation + domestication of plants and animals, what happens to your food supply