Historical Vocabulary
Period of the human past before writing was invented
What is prehistory?
The "Land Between Two Rivers"
What is Mesopotamia?
Where a river begins
What is the source?
Fertile soil carried by a flooding river and deposited on the river bank
What is silt?
This is how many pieces of candy the average household gives to each trick or treater on Halloween
What is two pieces of candy?
Any surviving man-made object
What is an artifact?
These two rivers defined Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
Recurring events that deposited silt on the banks of the rivers
What were floods?
A city that governs itself and surrounding territory
What is a city-state?
These are the colors on a piece of candy corn from top to bottom
What is white, yellow, orange?
The environment in which people live
What is geography?
The capital city from which King Hammurabi ruled
What was Babylon?
Places where many people settled and developed as trading centers.
What are cities?
A system of rules or laws
What is a code?
This American state produces the most pumpkins
What is Idaho?
A person who studies ancient cultures using artifacts
Who are archaeologists?
Another name for the arc of fertile soil where Mesopotamia was located
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The geographic places where the earliest civilizations developed
What are river valleys?
The oldest known written language made up of lines and wedges in clay
What is cuneiform?
Halloween is the second busiest holiday. This is the busiest holiday
What is Christmas?
The belief in more than one god
What is polytheism?
Mesopotamia's twin rivers empty into this body of water
What is the Persian Gulf?
The watering of crops during dry seasons
What is irrigation?
A government whose ruler, a king or queen, inherits the position frm a parent
What is a monarchy?
This is the name of the pot that witches cook in
What is a cauldron?