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Vocabulary
People
Places
Eras
Scientists
100
a tall flattened pyramid made of mud brick with a temple at the top
What is a ziggurat?
100
5,300 year old mummy
Who is Otzi?
100
land between the rivers
What is Mesopotamia?
100
invention of pottery
What is the Neolithic Era?
100
studies documents and records
What is a historian?
200
a system of writing that uses wedge shaped symbols to represent sounds and ideas
What is cuneiform?
200
created one of the first codes of law
Who is Hammurabi?
200
located in southern Mesopotamia; southern border is the Persian Gulf
What is Sumer?
200
during the Ice Age
What is the Paleolithic Era?
200
studies government and laws
What is a political scientist?
300
a belief in many gods and goddesses
What is polytheism?
300
created the first empire
Who is Sargon?
300
one of the first cities--taught us about agriculture
What is Catal Huyuk?
300
domestication of animals occurs
What is the Neolithic Era?
300
studies artifacts dug up from a site
What is an archaeologist?
400
an official writer that who kept records and copied official documents
What is a scribe?
400
Sumerian goddess of love and war
Who is Ishtar?
400
kingdom ruled by Sargon
What is Kish?
400
simple bands of hunters
What is the Paleolithic Era?
400
studies customs of a culture
What is an anthropologist?
500
a wall that keeps a river within its banks
What is a levee?
500
Sumerian god of water.
Who is Enki?
500
the country that is modern day Mesopotamia
What is Iraq?
500
12,000 to 6,000 years ago
What is the Mesolithic Era?
500
Studies how people of a certain place interact and get along with each other
What is a sociologist?