Paleolithic Era
These are people that don't live in one place, and move around chasing their food.
What are nomads?
This is a strategy for moving water from the river to your crop fields.
What is irrigation?
This is the first Ancient Civilization we have record of.
What is Mesopotamia?
This is the King or Queen of Ancient Egypt.
What is then Pharaoh?
This is the process of giving another person goods in exchange for theirs.
What is trade?
These are the necessities that every human needs to survive.
What is food, water, and shelter.
This term refers to growing more food than you need.
What is a surplus?
Mesopotamia as a civilization started here.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
This is the most important geographical feature of Ancient Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
This is the term we use for land that is perfect for growing food.
What is fertile?
The first humans are believed to have appeared on this continent.
What is Africa?
This is the process of taming animals to use for their products, like milk, meat, or wool.
What is domestication?
After the flooding season, the climate would be very hot and dry here. This season was called the _____.
What is the Drought.
Scribes in Ancient Egypt wrote in this language.
What are hieroglyphs?
The two main reasons for people to start civilizations near rivers.
What is irrigation/farming and drinking?
When people started doing this, the Paleolithic Era ended. It allowed them to live in one place.
What is farming or agriculture?
This is the most important geographical feature of an early agricultural society.
What is a river?
During the Babylonian Empire, Hammurabi created this.
What is the Code of Laws?
Egypt's very strict hierarchy had these jobs/roles at the bottom of the pyramid.
What are servants and slaves?
This is the revolution that happened when people moved from gathering food to producing food.
What is The Agricultural Revolution?
Human movement patterns from one place to another, usually forced by climate or access to food.
What is migration?
This is the term that refers to people being able to have jobs other than hunting and gathering, depending on what they are good at.
What is specialization of labor?
These were the two very important rivers that allowed Mesopotamia to thrive.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
This is an irrigation tool used by Ancient Mesopotamians and Egyptians to move water from one channel to another using a pulley system.
What is a shadoof?