Paleolithic & Neolithic
A person who moves around from place to place, often in search of food
What is a nomad?
What is 8?
The rivers associated with Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates
The Babylonian king who wrote the first law code
Who was Hammurabi
The term for a family who rules for a long period of time
What is a dynasty
The era when people began to settle down in one place and domesticate plants and animals to farm.
What is the Neolithic Revolution
This is the feature of civilization that focuses on laws and order
What is Government Systems?
The reasons early people settled by rivers
What is steady drinking water and fertile land
The role of social classes in the Code of Hammurabi
Different social classes received different punishments for the same crime
What is the Caste System
What led to more people and job specialization
What is a surplus of food?
What is polytheistic
The name of the Mesopotamian writing system
What is cuneiform
The name for Mesopotamian temples and places of worship
What are Ziggurats
The term for people who were outcast from the Caste System
The era where we see the beginning of farming and permanent civilizations
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
What is job specialization?
The term for the individual areas of governmental rule within early civilizations.
The number of laws in the Code of Hammurabi
The names of China's two main rivers
What are the Yantze and Yellow rivers
The approximate year that the Paleolithic Era ended
What is the year 10,000 BCE?
The feature of civilization that is projects that benefit the general public
What is Public Works?
The other name for the Fertile Crescent
What is The Cradle of Civilization
The type of government that Mesopotamia had
What is theocracy
The TWO mountain ranges that protected the Indus River Valley from invasion
What are the Himalayas and the Hindu Kush