Vocab
tame wild animals for human use
What is domestication?
A skilled worker who makes products such as pottery, cloth, or metal goods
What is an artisan
This form of writing was used by pressing reeds and sticks into clay tablets created by the people of Sumer
What is cuneiform
What did Chaldean astronomers study?
What are the sun, moon, and the stars
term best describes highly mobile people who moved from place to place while searching for new sources of food
Nomad
traces of plants or animals that have been preserved in rock
What is a fossil?
This is specialization. What does it mean?
When people focus on a particular job or skill
A large religious structure in ancient Mesopotamia
What is a ziggurat
How did Assyrian kings control their large empire
what is by creating provinces and dividing the kingdoms
this is known as a city and its surrounding land with its own government
What is a City State
waterways and ditches that bring water to fields
What is Irrigation?
These people hunt for evidence buried in the ground
what are archaeologists
He created a strict code of laws
Who is Hammurabi
Why did Nebuchadnezzar build the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
What is because he wanted to please his wife, who missed the mountains and plants of her homeland
What does Mesopotania mean?
This new discovery could be used to make stronger tools and weapons
What is Bronze
What is scribe
What important military technology did the Assyrians learn from the Hittites
to make stronger weapons
This group rebelled against the Assyrians, captured Nineveh in 612 B.C., and rebuilt Babylon into a magnificent city
What is the Chaldeans
people focus on a particular job or skill
What is specialization
People began planting and staying put. What was this "revolution"?
Mesopotamia is known as the region between two rivers. What were those rivers?
Tigris and Euphrates
Which group rebelled against the Assyrians, captured Nineveh in 612 B.C., and rebuilt Babylon into a magnificent city?
The Chaldeans
Central Americas, Asia, Fertile Crescent, Sahara... Which were not a major area where farming was developed?
What is the Sahara