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The People
Growth of City States
Vocabulary
Geography
Digging up the Past
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The people of Mesopotamia had to solve problems. They were known as this.
What are problem solvers?
100
Surplus of food led to this.
What is social divisions?
100
This means rich soil.
What is fertile?
100
The fertile crescent is located on this continent.
What is Asia (Southwest Asia)?
100
This is a period of time when huge sheets of ice (glaciers) covered the Earth.
What is the Ice Age?
200
Mesopotamians first built huts using this.
What are cut reeds?
200
In exchange for services they provided, workers were paid in this.
What is food?
200
This is a group of people who have a complex and organized society within a culture.
What are civilizations?
200
An area of high land.
What is a plataeu?
200
Archeologists believed this is where the first Americans settled.
What is Clovis, New Mexico?
300
People later used mudbricks to build this.
What are houses?
300
These were established as population in S. Mesopotamia grew.
What are city states?
300
"Land between two rivers"
What is Mesopotamia?
300
An area of flat land.
What is a plain?
300
This is a time when people primarily relied on stone or wood tools.
What is Stone Age?
400
This was a major step toward the rise of civilization in Mesopotamia.
What is the surplus of food?
400
Since Mesopotamia lacked many natural resources, they started to do this.
What is trade?
400
Methods for watering crops
What is irrigation?
400
These are the two rivers that run through the Fertile Crescent.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
400
Items early people left behind that help us learn about the past.
What are artifacts?
500
The rivers supplied the Mesopotamians with fresh water, rich soil, and this.
What is fish?
500
Trading with far away places helped spread the Mesopotamian ____________.
What is culture?
500
Craftspeople
What are artisans?
500
Today, the Fertile Crescent is part of the countries of Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and this.
What is Iran?
500
Scientist use this method to determine the age of an artifact.
What is carbon dating?