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Vocabulary
Ages of PreHistory
Fertile Crescent
Prehistoric Life
Cultural Developments
100
The way of life of people
What is culture?
100
Period when the northern continents were buried under ice and snow
What is the ice age?
100
Geographic areas where the earliest civilizations developed.
What are river valleys?
100
Earliest ways of getting food.
What were gathering and hunting?
100
Sumerian writing material
What is clay?
200
Scientists that study the earth
What is a geologist?
200
First period of human history
What is the stone age?
200
Sumerian wedge shaped writing
What is ceneiform?
200
Prehistoric wall art
What are cave paintings?
200
Basic political division in Sumer
What was the city-state?
300
Scientist who studies the remains of remains of ancient peoples and civilizations.
What is an archaeologist?
300
The shift from food hunting to food producing
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
300
The ' land between the rivers"
What is mesopotamia?
300
Neolithic ways of securing food
What were farming and herding?
300
Temple at the center of each Sumerian city.
What is a ziggurat?
400
Society centered around cities
What is a civilization?
400
Huge, slowly moving masses of ice and snow
What is a glacier?
400
Babylonian collection of laws
What was the code of Hammurabi?
400
New Neolithic living arrangements
What are villages?
400
Developed algebra
Who were the Sumerians?
500
Any object made by early people
What is an artifact?
500
radioactive element used to date ancient objects
What is carbon-14
500
The twin rivers of Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
500
Neolithic invention used as a basis of transportation
What is the wheel?
500
Belief in many gods
What is polytheism?