Ancient River Valley Civilizations.
This civilization created Cuneiform, The first writing.
Who is Sumer?
This great King of Babylon created 282 laws written down on a stone slab.
Who is King Hammurabi?
The belief in many gods.
What is Polytheistic?
These two rivers were the heart of the Mesopotamia River Valley civilizations.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates
This could be the first domesticated animal.
What is a dog?
This civilization created the first empire.
Who are the Akkadians.
This great King of Babylon, built a moat around the city for defense, and improved the city and temples.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar II?
This term means that a, person or a society, has more goods or food that they need at the moment.
What is a surplus?
This River Valley flooded twice a year predictably.
What is the Indus River Valley?
This Civilization had the Great Hanging Gardens. An ancient wonder of the world.
Who is Babylon?
This civilization, located in Mesopotamia, was a warrior society.
Who are the Assyrians?
This King of the Akkadians created the world's first empire.
Who is Sargon?
A collection of city-states ruled by on nation or one leader.
What is an empire?
Mesopotamia is located in this area. Named for its shape and how well crops grow.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
This civilization appeared after the disappearance of the ancient Indus River Valley Civilization. They brought the Caste System and the Vedas, beginning the Vedic Era.
Who are the Aryans?
This civilization had the first written laws.
Who is Babylon?
This archeologist is best known for his 1974 groundbreaking discovery of the 3.2 million- year-old skeleton.
Who is Donald Johansson?
The customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group.
What culture?
This is the term used for the era where humanity began the transformation from hunter gathers to farmers/domesticating animals? A sort of revolution.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
In the Greek language, Mesopotamia, breaks down to Meso meaning land and Potamia meaning ________.
What is Between Two Rivers?
Harappa and this civilization were the two greatest in the ancient Indus River Valley civilization.
Who is Mohenjo-daro?
The name of Donald Johansson's 3.2 million- year-old skeleton he discovered in 1974..
Who is Lucy?
The study of human societies and cultures and their development.
What is Anthropology?
Because of unpredictable flooding and drought, River Valley civilizations had to ___________their farms to protect their crop. This term means the supply of water to land or crops to help growth, typically by means of channels.
What is Irrigate?
This River Valley civilization used standardized bricks and a grid system when building their cities.
Who is the Indus River Valley