Vocab
Paleolithic
Neolithic
Sumerian City-States
Bonus!
100

_____ are fine particles of rock

silt

100

Early humans were what?

Hunters and gatherers

100

What is agriculture?

Farming and raising livestock (animals)

100

What challenge forced the people of Mesopotamia to move to the river-valley?

Food shortages

100

What is the Sumerian writing system called?

Cuneiform

200

______ is the business of growing crops and raising animals

Agriculture

200

People during the Paleolithic Age lived in what?

Caves or Tents

200

Why were early settlements created in the Fertile Crescent?

The land was fertile and good for growing crops.

200

What rivers did Sumer depend on for its water supply?

Tigris and Euphrates

200

How many laws did Hammurabi's Code have?

282

300

_____taming/training animals and plants to be useful to humans

Domestication

300

What is it called when someone moves from place to place with NO permanent home?

Nomad

300

What is the most important development of this time period?

Agriculture

300

Farmers in Sumer faced times of flooding and too little water, how did they solve this problem of an uncontrolled water supply?

Irrigation systems (canals, levees, dams, etc.)

300

What is a ziggurat?

A temple (where they worshipped, church, etc)

400

What is the geographic area located between the tigris and euphrates rivers?

Mesopotamia

400

Roughly how many years ago did the Paleolithic age begin?

2 million years ago.

400

People during the Neolithic age lived in what? (be specific)

Permanent shelters made from sun-baked clay bricks.

400

Why did city-states have to build walls and moats around their cities?

To protect themselves from attacks from neighboring villages

400

What were the three levels of a Sumerian social structure?

Upperclass, Middle Class, Lower Class

500

_________ are cities that were like small independent countries with their own laws and government.      

City-States

500

What is another name for the Paleolithic Age?

Old Stone Age

500

What happened after people discovered agriculture and could create a stable food supply?

Make permanent shelters

500

Why were Sumerian communities called city-states?

Had their own ruler and farmland.

500

What is the name of the red ore that early city-states had to trade to get?

Hematite