Prehistory
Early Farming/Culture
The Fertile Crescent
Mesopotamia, Babylonia, and Assyria, Oh My!
Hebrews, Phoenicians, and Lydians, Oy Vey!
100

Early tools were made of this.

What is stone (could also be bone)?

100

The word for early farmers taming wild animals (like goats or sheep).

What is domestication?

100

A pyramid of stacked platforms that Mesopotamians built as a link to the Gods.

What was a ziggurat?

100

Babylonian King famous for his law code.

Who was Hammurabi?

100

Led the Hebrew people out of Egypt.

Who was Moses?

200

Objects made by people long ago, that archaeologist use to understand how they live. 

What are artifacts?

200

Collecting or gathering wild (or farmed) plants.

What is harvesting?

200

Land that is rich and good for growing crops.

What is fertile?

200

The wedge-shaped form of writing created by the Sumerian people.

What is cuneiform?

200

The person considered by Jewish people to be the first Jew.

Who is Abraham?

300

Some of the first plants that were domesticated.

What were grains (like wheat, rice, and barley)?

300

Once people started farming, they developed these instead of following herds of animals.

What were villages?

300

Trenches and ditches to move water from rivers/lakes to crops.

What is irrigation?

300

An early piece of literature about a Sumerian King.

What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?

300

The important Jewish belief that there is only one God.

What is monotheism?

400

Marked the end of the Stone Age.

What was the development of metal tools?

400

In addition to animals and plants, early farmers domesticated these.

What are bees (or insects or silk worms)?

400

The names of the two rivers bordering the Fertile Crescent to the north and south.

What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?

400

The Akkadian ruler who conquered multiple city states, and started the first empire with his family dynasty.

Who was Sargon?

400

King David united the Hebrew people into one country, and his sons divided it into these two countries.

What are Israel and Judah?

500

Archaeologists believe humans used this to first travel to the Americas.

What is Beringia, or a land bridge from Asia to Alaska?

500

In addition to tools and discarded items, these artifacts tell archaeologists the most about ancient people.

What is prehistoric artwork?

500

In Sumer there was a class system, with these people holding the most power, and these people having the least (two answers)

What are business and land owners (at the top) and slaves (at the bottom)?

500

The Assyrians built a famous one in their capital city of Ninevah.

What is a library?

500

The Phoenicians' and Lydians' most important contributions to the modern world (two things).

What are the alphabet and coins?