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Civilizations
Ancient Mesopotamia
Just Words
100

What is a decade?

A period of 10 years

100

The Agricultural Revolution was...

When farming was first developed.

100

The two geographical features that allowed people to be able to live in Mesopotamia.

The Tigris and Euphrates rivers

100

Extra, more than you need.

Surplus

200

What is a century?

A period of 100 years.

200

What is it called when people train for one particular job?

Labor specialization

200

What was the climate like in Mesopotamia?

Hot and Dry

200

People who move around from place to place, wanderers.

Nomads

300

The Pyramids in Giza were built circa 2500 B.C.E. This means they were built...

Around the year 2500 B.C.E. (not exactly that year!)

300

Making laws, keeping the peace, and protecting it's people is the role of...

Government.

300

The quarter circle shaped region of Mesopotamia near the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is called

The Fertile Crescent

300

A place where people come to live for a long time.

Permanent settlement

400

Chronological order means events are ordered according to...

Time, or the time they occurred. 

400

_________ organizes society into classes, with the most powerful and wealthy in the highest class.

Social structure

400

The name of the civilization that started in Mesopotamia is called...

Sumer

400

An economy where goods are exchanged without using money.

Barter economy
500

List the following in Chronological Order: Neolithic Age, Discovery of Fire, Invention of the Plow.

Discovery of fire, Neolithic Age, Invention of the Plow

500

What was the first step in developing a civilization? In other words, what had to happen first?

Producing a food surplus.

500

The Sumerians eventually split off into independent...

City-States

500

All knowledge and beliefs shared by a society.

Culture