Vocabulary
A person who moves from place to place in order to survive
Nomad
Part of GRAPES that involves the landscape and the area of a civilization.
Geography
The earliest part of the Stone Ages
Paleolithic Age
Hammurabi's Code
Which advancement made it possible for people to begin settling in one place?
Farming
Small particles of fertile soil left behind by floods
Silt
Government falls into which GRAPES category?
Politics
The later part of the Stone Ages
Neolithic Age
Arch shaped area of fertile farmland where Mesopotamia developed
Fertile Crescent
Which came first: Spoken language or written language?
Spoken Language
System of watering crops by controlling the flow of nearby rivers
Irrigation
The part of GRAPES that deals with money and trade.
Economics
Why were people hunters and gatherers in the Paleolithic Age?
It was the only way to get food to survive.
Cuneiform
Name two things fire helped people do.
Cook food, stay warm, scare animals, light.
River Valley Civilization
Cuneiform and farming fall into which GRAPES category?
Advancements or Achievements
What is the first from of written communication in the Stone Ages?
Cave paintings
Why was the first civilization called Mesopotamia?
It was in between two rivers.
Why was Hammurabi's code significant?
It was the first ever set of written laws
The belief in many gods
Polytheism
Kings were at the top of which grapes category?
Social Structure
Why was this time period called the stone ages?
People used stone to makes tools and weapons.
The two rivers that border the Fertile Crescent
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
Define Agricultural Revolution
The change from hunting and gathering to a farming civilization/