Vocabulary
What is a complex society?
Civilization
What is a Sumerian building material?
Mud brick
What are preserved remains of plants and animals called?
Fossil
What is an early weapon, tool, or other things made by humans?
Artifact
What are the two rivers that flow through Mesopotamia?
What is building dams, channels, walls, and ditches to bring crops to water?
Irrigation
What were record keepers?
Scribe
Historians call the early period of human history the
Stone Age
The Paleolithic people were able to survive because they used?
Fire
What is the climate like in in Mesopotamia?
hot and dry climate
What is a group of many different lands under one ruler?
Empire
"Town" surrounded by a wall with its own form of government.
City-state
Who studies human societies?
Anthropologist
Who hunts for evidence of human settlements?
Archaeologist
What where the cities in the southern region in Mesopotamia called?
Sumer
Cradle of civilizations
Mesopotamia
Who lived in an area of Southern Mesopotamia?
Sumerians
Who moves from place to place regularly, usually within a group of people?
Nomad
What revolutionary change took place during the Neolithic Age?
Farming
What is a Ziggurat?
Grand temple
Who were skilled workers who made metal products, cloth, or pottery?
Artisan
What is are cuneiform's?
A writing tablet, made by hundreds of wedge shaped marks cut into damp clay.
How did domesticating animals help the Neolithic people?
Animals supplied meat, milk, and wool. They also carried goods and pulled carts.
What is the difference in the technology between the Paleolithic Age and the Neolithic Age?
Paleolithic people used stones, bones, and wooden tools as weapons.
The Neolithic people used metal tools and weapons.
What is the powerful city located by the Euphrates River? It was called the center of trade.
Babylon