Paleolithic Era
Neolithic Revolution
Mesopotamia
River Valley Civilizations
Miscellaneous
100

People during this time hunted animals and gathered nuts, berries and plants.

What is hunter-gatherer?

100

The Agricultural Revolution began

What is the Neolithic Age?

100

This is another name given to the Mesopotamian region because of its good soil.

What is the Fertile Crescent?

100

Early civilization depending on this for their crops

What is water?

100

An organized societyWhat is the era when humans stopped hunting-gathering and started farming called?

What is the Neolithic Revolution?

200

This was the time period when the earliest humans lived and is said to be circa (around) 2 million years ago

What is the Paleolithic Age?

200

Farming first begin here

What is Southwest Asia?

200

The first civilization in Mesopotamia

What is Sumer (or the Sumerians)?

200

Too much flooding lead to this

What is famine?

200

Another name for fresh silt

What is soil?

300

A group of people who have no fixed home and move according to the seasons from place to place in search of food, water, and grazing land

What is a nomad?

300

Since people were not nomads anymore, they started these

What are villages or permanent settlement?

300

These are the names of the two main rivers that flow through Mesopotamia.

What is the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?

300

Early civilizations created this to avoid flooding & to supply water to an area of land

What is an irrigation system?

300

This is considered the home of the gods

What is a zigguart?

400

During the Paleolithic Age, humans lived in these

What are caves?

400

After the Neolithic Revolution, people did not have to be hunter-gatherers, they could choose from many jobs. This is called...

What is specialization?

400

It means "land between the rivers." This refers to the low plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

What is Mesopotamia?

400

This group of people invented geometry

Who are the Egyptians?

400

Hunter-gatherers used this to create tools

What is stone (flint)?

500

During the Paleolithic Age, this was the average size of a human community

What are 20-30 people?

500

This happened to the human population as a result of the Neolithic Revolution                    

What is an increase in population?

500

Sumerians had this type of belief system.

What is polytheistic?

500

This group of people created clay pots for food storage

Who are the Sumerians?

500

A word meaning favoring of some ideas or people over others

What is bias?