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Early Man
Mesopotamia
Ancient Egypt
??Mystery Question???
100
Means "Before Christ" and "Before Common Era".
What is BC and BCE?
100
People who move from place to place.
What are nomads?
100
The area of land that was good for farming and located around the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
100
Tombs for pharaohs. There were three types.
What is a pyramid?
100
Triangular mouth of the Nile River.
What is a delta?
200
Means "Anno Domini-Year of our Lord".
What is AD?
200
A man-made object that was made a long time ago.
What is an artifact?
200
Means the land between two rivers. A region in the fertile crescent where many civilizations lived.
What is Mesopotamia?
200
The Egyptian writing system.
What is hieroglyphics?
200
Poor people in the lower class were called.
What are peasants?
300
Means "Common Era".
What is CE?
300
To tame plants and animals for people's use.
What is domesticate?
300
The Sumerian writing system. It was written on clay tablets and had wedge-shapes pressed into clay by a reed.
What is cuneiform?
300
An Egyptian coffin. There were two or three of these inside each other.
What is a sarcophagus?
300
List the four Sumerian Empires in order.
What is Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians?
400
A record of an event written by someone who saw or took part in the event. Examples: diary, photograph...
What is a primary source?
400
To move from place to place.
What is migrate?
400
Give as many examples of Sumerian innovations as you can.
What are dikes, dams, canals, the wheel, cuneiform writing, wheeled cart....?
400
Someone who writes for someone else.
What is a scribe?
400
Areas where there are large rocks and limestone found in the ground.
What are quarries?
500
A record of an event written by someone who was not there at the time. Example: a textbook.
What is a secondary source?
500
A small group of people who hunt and gather food.
What is a band?
500
A mud-brick temple that was usually the largest building in the city-state.
What is a ziggurat?
500
What are the three seasons of Egypt?
What is innundation, emergence, and harvest?
500
Members of a village complete different jobs based on their abilities.
What is Division of Labor?