Geography
It describes the symbols used on a map
What is the map key or legend?
It marks the beginning of the Paleolithic Period
What is the appearance of the first human beings/
This is the reason people in East Africa migrated to other areas
What is climate change?
The rivers of Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
These were the metals Sumerians learned to work with
What is tin, copper and bronze?
He created the first empire
Who was Sargon?
They are imaginary horizontal and vertical lines that are used to pinpoint any location on Earth
What are latitude & longitude
They moved from place to place in search of food
What are hunter-gatherers?
This term is used to identify the way of life of a group that sets it apart from other groups?
What is culture?
It is considered to be the 1st civilization
What is Sumer?
A four sided stepped pyramid
What is a ziggurat?
This military formation was created by the Akkadians. It also was used by the Greeks
What is the Phalanx?
5 Oceans
What are Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Southern Oceans
This technology improved the lives of Paleolithic people
What is fire?
This was one of the most significant inventions of the Neolithic Period
What is the wheel?
It is a city-state (not a specific name)
What are cities and the surrounding territory each with its own government?
More than 2 gods and only 1 god
What is polytheism & monotheism
This was the capital of the empire
What is Akkad?
7 continents
What are North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia & Antarctica
It marked the end of the Paleolithic Period and the start of the Neolithic Period
What is the agricultural revolution?
In the Neolithic Period, it allowed people to do other jobs other than farming
What is division of labor?
It was wedged shpate symbols
What is cuneiform?
Sumerian city-stastes often fought each other about this
What is water and farmland?
This was the first king Sargon betrayed
Who was Ur-Zababa?
5 elements of geography
What is location, place region, movement and HEI
This allowed people to arrive in North America
What is the Beringia?
It is the proper order of the 5 events in the Agricultural Revolution
What is farming? Staying one place/settling down, population growth, food surplus, (population & food surplus can be reversed) division of labor
This famous piece of literature was written in cuneiform
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What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
The Sumerians developed this number system
What is the base 60 system?
This is the king Sargon defeated to create the first empire.
Who is Lugalzagesi?