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prehistory
religion
achievements
geography
social structure
100
archaelogist
What is a scientist who examines objects to learn about past cultures?
100
polytheistic
What is a person called who believes in many gods?
100
stone
What did stone age times use to make their weapons?
100
land between the rivers
What does Mesopotamia mean?
100
priest
What is the highest position in their social structure?
200
historian
What is a person who studies the written and oral records of human cultures?
200
monotheistic
What is a person called who believed in one god?
200
barter
What is the exchange of goods and services without the use of money?
200
Fertile Crescent
What is a nickname for Mesopotamia?
200
clan
What is a group of people with a common purpose called?
300
oral traditions
What is stories passed down by word of mouth?
300
nomad
What is a person called who roams from place to place with no permanent home?
300
currency
What is money in any form?
300
water
What did most cities live near?
300
social class
What are people that share the same economic and social ranking in society called?
400
artifacts
What are things shaped by humans, such as tools, pottery, and weapons?
400
civilization
What is an organized society with religion, language, and laws?
400
cuneiform
What is the language called that has lines and wedges?
400
Tigris and Euphrates
What two rivers does Mesopotamia lie near?
400
homogeneous
What is a group of people who are alike called?
500
fossils
What is evidence of plant or animal life preserved in stone?
500
ziggurats
Mesopotamia's stepped temples
500
the plow
What was the first thing Mesopotamian people used to work their crops?
500
infrastructure
What are big projects such as roads, sewers and bridges called?