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Vocabulary
Ancient Sumer
Neolithic v. Paleolithic Ages
Geography
Misc. Questions
100
A person who moves from place to place without a permanent shelter.
What is a nomad?
100
True or False: Sumer is located in Mesopotamia?
What is true.
100
The time period that came first. (Which is the oldest?)
What is the Paleolithic Age?
100
The two rivers that Mesopotamia is located between.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
100
The reason Neolithic people traded.
What is to obtain the resources that they did not have?
200
A person who studies the past by examining old artifacts.
What is an archaeologist?
200
In order to escape the food shortage in the hills.
What is the reason people left the Zagros foothills?
200
The age in which agriculutre was developed.
What is the Neolithic Age?
200
a region located in southern Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer?
200
Why would farmers grow crops and domesticate animals?
What is to have a stable food supply?
300
To tame wild animals for personal use.
What is to domesticate?
300
Canals and reservoirs are part of the complex ____________ system that Sumerians developed.
What is irrigation?
300
Neolithic people lived in these types of homes.
What are permanent shelters?
300
A Neolithic town discovered in Central Turkey.
What is Catal Hoyuk?
300
Name a geographic challenge that lead to the development of Sumerian city-states.
What is an unstable water supply, no natural barriers, hard, dry soil, etc.
400
A large ditch or trench built around city-state walls filled with water, designed to keep enemies out.
What is a moat?
400
What Sumerians used for protection against enemy groups.
What are mud brick walls?
400
During this time period, people hunted and used stone tools.
What is the Paleolithic Age?
400
The continent on which Mesopotamia is located.
What is Asia?
400
Name a human made feature a geography may study other than a map.
What is a road, a town, etc.
500
a feature of the earth.
What is geographic?
500
A Sumerian city-state has been compared to this by historians.
What are self-governing, independent countries.
500
This age saw the development of people living in large groups.
What is the Neolithic Age.
500
The other two bodies of water (besides rivers) that Mesopotamia is located between.
What are the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea?
500
What are these examples of in Catal Hoyuk: Spinners, Weavers, Basket Makers, Toolmakers? A. Trade B. Specializations C. Education
What is B.