Vocabulary
Moving from place to place continuosly in search of food and resources without a permanent home
What is nomadic?
CE
What is the common era?
Name one reason why hunter-gatherers were nomadic
What are: Resources, food, clean water
Two important waterways that made it possible for Ancient Mesopotamia to grow
What are the Tigris and Eupgrates Rivers?
The meaning of reliable
What is you can believe?
To move from one place or region to establish a home in another location
What is migrate?
BCE
What is before the common era?
Name one reason why cities bgan to rise.
What is: Achievements, improvements in agriculture, surplus, trade
An important waterway that made it possible for the Indus River VAlley civilization to grow
What is the Indus River?
The meaning of bias
What is that the source is not accurate for several reasons?
An extra amount of something beyond what is needed for immediate survival
What is a surplus?
Which date is older: 400 BCE or 400CE?
What is 400 BCE?
Why early humans settled around water
What are: food sources, trade, drinking water
Reason ancient civilizations were able to have a surplus
What are achievements in agriculture, such as the plow?
CNN and FOX News are reliable sources. True or False?
What is false? Each decide what news to present and how to present it based on their viewpoint.
To change or adapt the surrounding environment to fit human needs
What is to modify?
Is it possible to be born in CE and dies in BCE?
No. BCE comes before CE on a timeline.
How Mesopotamia modified their environment
What are canals?
Mesopotmaia is located on this continent
What is Asia?
A Harvard professor gives a lecture about ancient Rome. Is he a secondary or a primary source?
What is a secondary source?
An advanced society with developed cities, organized government, specialied labor and writing systems
What is a civilization?
Which came first: 500BCE, 4000BCE of 30BCE?
What is 4000BCE?
How Hammurabi made sure that his people knwe the code
What is he posted the laws on a steele and the entrance to the city?
Name both of the modern day countries where the Indus River Valley was located in
What are India and Pakistan?
A gladiator writes a book about his experiences fighting at the Colliseum. Is he a primary or a secondary source?
What is primary source?