Paleolithic Era
People during this time hunted animals and gathered nuts, berries and plants.
What is hunter-gatherer?
The Agricultural Revolution began
What is the Neolithic Age?
This is another name given to the Mesopotamian region because of its good soil.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Early civilization depending on this for their crops
What is water?
An organized societyWhat is the era when humans stopped hunting-gathering and started farming called?
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
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?
Farming first begin here
What is Southwest Asia?
The first civilization in Mesopotamia
What is Sumer (or the Sumerians)?
Too much flooding lead to this
What is famine?
Another name for fresh silt
What is soil?
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?
Since people were not nomads anymore, they started these
What are villages or permanent settlement?
These are the names of the two main rivers that flow through Mesopotamia.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
Early civilizations created this to avoid flooding & to supply water to an area of land
What is an irrigation system?
This is considered the home of the gods
What is a zigguart?
During the Paleolithic Age, humans lived in these
What are caves?
After the Neolithic Revolution, people did not have to be hunter-gatherers, they could choose from many jobs. This is called...
What is specialization?
It means "land between the rivers." This refers to the low plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
This group of people invented geometry
Who are the Egyptians?
Hunter-gatherers used this to create tools
What is stone (flint)?
During the Paleolithic Age, this was the average size of a human community
What are 20-30 people?
This happened to the human population as a result of the Neolithic Revolution
What is an increase in population?
Sumerians had this type of belief system.
What is polytheistic?
This group of people created clay pots for food storage
Who are the Sumerians?
A word meaning favoring of some ideas or people over others
What is bias?