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Neanderthals
Mesopotamia Basics
Mesopotamian Technologies
Mesopotamia
100
The three main categories are objects, processes, and knowledge.
What is technology?
100
The type of society the Neanderthals lived in.
What is a hunter-gatherer society?
100
The meaning of the word "Mesopotamia", and the reason the Mesopotamians inhabited the area.
What is in between two rivers with fertile land?
100
A process of fermenting ingredients to form a beverage.
What is beer?
100
The capitol city of Mesopotamia.
What is Ur?
200
Means many gods.
What is polytheistic?
200
The roles a female played in the society.
What is the gatherer?
200
The modern day location of Mesopotamia.
What is Iraq and Syria?
200
A form of technology that assists in agricuture that depended on the rivers Mesopotamia was situated between.
What is irrigation?
300
An independent or self governing state, made up of a city and the surrounding area controlled by it.
What is a city-state?
300
The reason that the cro-magons advanced beyond the neanderthals.
What is an evolved brain?
300
The two rivers Mesopotamia is located between.
What is the Tigris and the Euphrates?
300
Developed based on agricultural events such as the floods.
What is the calendar?
300
The king that conquered Mesopotamia who developed a code of laws.
Who is King Hammurabi?
400
The production of food by growing crops and raising animals.
What is agriculture?
400
To bring animals under human control.
What is to domesticate?
400
The type of religion the Mesopotamians had.
What is polytheistic?
400
One of the seven wonders of the world, that took great engineering to build.
What is the hanging garden?
400
The social class that lived closest to the Ziggurat, and what type of home they would have.
Who are the merchants in two story houses?
500
Preserving human remains to forestall decomposition.
What is embalming?
500
The lifestyle that the Neanderthals lived with regards to where they lived.
What is a migratory lifestyle?
500
The type of writing the mesopotamians had.
What is cunieform writing?
500
Architecture that required important knowledge of geometry, and was used to store food or worship.
What is the Ziggurat?
500
The reason the Mesopotamians fell to the Babylonians.
What is fighting between the city-states?