Paleolithic
Paleolithic means _______________Age
Old Stone Age
Body of water North of Asia Minor
Black Sea
Neolithic means________.
New Stone Age
This region of the Fertile Crescent inspired the English Alphabet
Phoenicia
Who allowed the Jewish people to return to their homeland after the Babylonian captivity?
Cyrus of Persia
People during Paleolithic times did what to survive?
Follow animal herds for food (Nomads)
Land mass south of the Black Sea
Asia Minor
People during Neolithic times did what to survive?
farming and domestication of animals
Mountain Range East of Mesopotamia
Zagros Mountains
Who exiled (forced to leave) the Jews from their homeland for nearly 70 years?
Nebuchadnezzar
2 of the oldest settlements during Paleolithic times were what?
Jericho
Catalhuyuk
Why does the Nile River flow from South to North?
Mountains and Higher elevations are in Southern Egypt and Lower elevations are in Northern Egypt
Farming allowed what to occur during Neolithic times?
People could settle in Permanent Homes and develop a Food Surplus. Food Surplus led to specialization and division of labor.
Mountain Range between the Black and Caspian Sea
Caucasus Mountains
What does AD mean?
What does CE mean?
What time period do these symbols represent?
AD-Anno Domini In the Year of our Lord
CE-Common Era
Both symbols represent the years After the Birth of Christ
Where did farming develop?
Fertile Crescent
2 of the oldest settlements in the Fertile Crescent region
Jericho
Catalhuyuk
Some historians refer to the Neolithic Age as the what?
Agricultural Revolution
10 years
100 years
This word means around or about not approximate
Decade
Century
Circa
________is a collection of city states ruled by a single ruler.
_______created the world's first one of these examples.
Empire
Sargon
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers flow into the ________.
Persian Gulf
_________is farming on a regular basis for survival
Systematic Agriculture
Greek term for Land between the Rivers
Mesopotamia
What does BC mean?
What does BCE mean?
What time period do these symbols represent?
BC-Before Christ
BCE-Before the Common Era
Both represent the years Before the Birth of Christ
_________is one of the earliest forms of literature from the Ancient world.
Epic of Gilgamesh