This term describes weapons, tools, and other things made by humans.
What are artifacts?
100
This is the name of the continent where the earliest humans were found.
What is Africa?
100
These are people who regularly moved from place to place without a set home.
Who are nomads?
100
This was the name of a hominid found by Donald Johanson, and it was 3 million years old.
Who is Lucy?
100
He created the Babylonian Empire and is best known for his law code.
Who is Hammurabi?
200
These scientists study how humans developed and how they related to one another.
What are anthropologists?
200
They hunt for evidence buried in the ground where settlements might have been.
What are archaeologists?
200
This is the term for the part of prehistory that means "middle stone" in Greek.
What is Mesolithic?
200
This is the name of the prehistoric period of human history.
What is the Stone Age?
200
This is the name for the earliest part of the Stone Age, and it means "old stone" in Greek.
What is Paleolithic?
300
This is the taming of animals for human use.
What is domesticating?
300
These are traces of plants or animals that have been preserved in rock.
What are fossils?
300
Farming was the cause of the beginning of this age in history.
What is the Neolithic Age?
300
This early human community had tightly packed mud brick houses that looked like cardboard boxes on top of each other.
What is Catal Huyuk?
300
This "element" was the first material people used for for tools and weapons.
What is copper?
400
These ferocious warriors began taking over Mesopotamia in 900 B.C.
Who are the Assyrians?
400
This term means the development of different kinds of jobs, most especially jobs OTHER THAN farming.
What is specialization?
400
This "element" was heated, hammered, and cooled to create the strongest "element" for weapons and tools.
What is iron?
400
This "element" was harder than the first element for weapons and tools, and an age is named after it.
What is Bronze?
400
This is one of the '7 Wonders of the Ancient World' and was a staircase of greenery built to impress a wife.
What are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
500
The world's first civilization, a region named Sumer in Mesopotamia, was located on a plain between these two river.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
500
He created the world's first empire, and was king of the Akkadians.
Who is Sargon?
500
This was the capital city of the Assyrian Empire.
What is Nineveh?
500
No one is sure why these were created, but historians believe they might have been made for religious reasons or to explain people's roles in the universe.
What are cave paintings?
500
These are complex societies that have cities, organized governments, art, religion, class divisions, and a writing system.