One of the first civilizations. People settled there because the land was between the Tigris River and the Euphrates River. The land was very fertile for farming.
What is Mesopotamia
100
Shows what happened over a long period of time.
What is a time line?
100
Believed to have first been used during the ice age to adapt to the freezing cold by staying warm.
What is fire?
100
A scientist who looks for places where people lived a long time ago.
What is an archaeologist?
100
A person who works in agriculture.
What is a farmer?
200
A civilization in Mesopotamia. They were warriors and conquered many other lands.
What is Babylonia?
200
2,500,000 years ago in Africa, people made tools and weapons from stone. They hunted animals and gathered food during this time.
What is the Stone Age?
200
Began in 7,000 to grow crops.
What is farming or agriculture?
200
When Archaeologists find these, they can learn about how long ago people lived in that place.
What are human bones?
200
Seeds planted in the ground to be grown for food.
What are crops?
300
A civilization in Mesopotamia. It was a city of great learning.
What is Assyria?
300
From 2,000,000 to 15,000 years ago, the earth was covered with glaciers. People had to adapt to the freezing weather.
What is Ice Age?
300
Invented in 3,500 to make it easier to carry goods.
What is the wheel?
300
Archaeologist sometimes find these items made of stone used for making things and for hunting.
What are tools and weapons?
300
Canals were built to move water to crops.
What is irrigation?
400
A region in Mesopotamia where most people were farmers.
What is Sumer?
400
Around 6,600, people combined copper and tin to made weapons and tools harder than stone. They traded goods like food, cloth, weapons, and tools.
What is the Bronze Age?
400
The Sumerians invented this kind of writing to record information about their products.
What is cuneiform?
400
Archaeologists have found this system of writing carved into stone.
What is cuneiform?
400
Crops grown beginning in 7000 included these:
What are corn and wheat?
500
A place where sea traders and explorers who told stories about sea monsters so other people would be afraid and not want to compete for trade.
What is Phoenicia?
500
To show events in the order in which they happened.
What is chronological?
500
In 1792, Hammurabi wrote 282 of these as well as punishments for breaking them.
What are laws?
500
Archaeologists have found scenes of this in caves.