Prehistory
A stone hammer, a tablet of cuneiform or a bone flute are examples of this. (hint: Archaeologists study these)
What are artifacts?
This means "New Stone Age".
What is Neolithic?
Mesopotamia means this.
What is "between the two rivers"?
This was the first form of writing.
What is cuneiform?
This is the name for the history of humans before writing.
What is Prehistory?
This is what nomadic people did.
What is move from place to place following animal herds or seasons?
This was the major change that occurred during the Neolithic Era.
What is farming?
These were giant temples built for the gods.
What are ziggurats?
This was one of the achievements of Mesopotamia.
What is writing, the wheel, the sail, 60 base counting, irrigation, money...
This is the name for a food that most of the people rely on.
What is a Staple Crop?
This was a belief that every natural thing had a soul.
What is animism?
This term means having more food than you needed.
What is a surplus?
These were cities that acted like their own country.
What are city-states?
This was the way Mesopotamia's watered their crops by digging ditches to lead water to their fields.
What is irrigation?
This is the name for the telling of stories through memory.
What is the Oral Tradition?
This was the way Paleolithic humans survived by killing wild animals and picking wild plants.
What is hunting and gathering?
By only replanting the best seeds, humans did this.
What is domesticate plants?
One of the earliest codes of law was this.
What is Hammurabi's Code of Law?
These were the names of the two rivers in Mesopotamia.
What are the Euphrates and Tigris rivers?
This word means "many gods".
What is Polytheism?
This was the term given to the movement of humans out of Africa spreading around the world.
What is the Great Migration?
This was one of the side effects of domesticating animals.
What is diseases?
This is the oldest written story.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
During the last Ice Age, humans were able to travel between these two continents.
What are Asia and America?
This word means power passing from generation to generation.
What is dynasty?