The Old Stone Age
The job most people had.
What is hunting and gathering?
The other name of the New Stone Age
What is the Neolithic Age?
Where the first Sumerians settled.
What are the foothills of the Zagros Mountains?
The two rivers around Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
Shelter in the Old Stone Age
What are caves?
Definition: controlling animals for human benefit.
What is domestication?
Why the Sumerians moved to the plains.
What are food shortages in the hills?
Sumerians made their walls out of this material.
What are mud bricks?
Early tools were made of this.
What is stone?
This caused the development of permanent shelters.
How the Sumerians learned to control the water supply.
What are dams, canals, and levees/ irrigation?
This made Mesopotamia a difficult place to live in.
What are dry plains, hot sun, and flooding?
The Old Stone Age's other name.
What is the Paleolithic Age
One popular trade items in the New Stone Age.
What are flint and obsidian?
This dust and debris clogged Sumerian irrigation paths.
What is silt?
Definition: An independent city, that operates like its own country.
What is a city-state?
This caused the end of the Old Stone Age.
What is the invention of farming?
A piece of land where many early settlements were founded, due to favorable farming conditions.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
How the Sumerians defended against attacks?
What is building walls and moats?
A major cause of fighting between Sumerian city-states.
What are control of the water and land?