Politics
This civilization were the builders of the pyramids...
Egyptians
The worship of many gods is called
Polytheism
Major rivers in Mesopotamia were
Tigris and Euphrates
The first form of writing was called
cuneiform
Early humans in the Paleolithic Era often had two primary jobs that defined them...
Hunting & gathering
(hunter-gatherers)
by hereditary rule
Writing was very difficult job in Mesopotamia and it was done by
scribes
The region we call today Near East was known in ancient times as
Fertile Crescent
The first Code of Law was created by
An example of early human collaboration in Northern Europe that resulted in a structure which we cannot explain:
Stonehenge
Leaders who are blood related are part of
dynasties
The Hebrews of the Old World believed in monotheism. What is that?
The belief in ONE god.
YHWH
The type of mud full of nutrients that remained on the banks of the rivers after flood was called
silt
Early humans often depicted their life and times in non-linguistic ways, including this early art form:
Cave Art!
The early world founded their civilizations around which naturally-occurring locations
River Valleys
This early law structure established the early traces of "an eye for an eye."
Hammurabi's Code
Phoenicians established this, the first of its kind
The alphabet!
The River by which early Indo-Harrapan peoples first appeared
Indus River
Farming was advanced thanks to two important inventions of Sumerians
plow and irrigation (other acceptable answer: the wheel)
The Egyptians founded this method of writing:
Hieroglyphics
When there are priests in the government we call this government
theocracy
Mesopotamians built huge temples called
ziggurats
What is the name of the ancient Neolithic civilization that was discovered in the early 1960s?
Çatalhöyük
The Neolithic Revolution led to
What was the name of the presumably murdered man in the Alps 5200 years ago, whose mummified remains were located by German hikers in 1991?
Otzi (the Iceman!)