Paleolithic vs. Neolithic
This term describes people who have no permanent home and move from place to place in search of food.
What is nomadic?
This early civilization developed entirely along the banks of the Nile River in northeast Africa.
What is Ancient Egypt?
Cuneiform and hieroglyphics are early ancient examples of this critical pillar of civilization.
What is written language?
This famous, ancient Babylonian set of 282 laws is one of the earliest examples of a written legal code.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
This term describes a situation where there is not enough of a resource to satisfy everyone's needs.
What is scarcity?
This major historical shift occurred when humans stopped hunting and gathering and began farming.
What is the Agricultural Revolution/Neolithic Revolution?
This crescent-shaped region of fertile land in the Middle East is where the first civilizations emerged.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Having more food than a community needs to survive is known by this term, which allows a civilization to grow.
What is a food surplus?
This Egyptian Pharaoh gained popularity because his tomb was the only one discovered nearly entirely intact with over 5,000 priceless treasures.
Who is King Tutankhamun?
Because food surpluses meant not everyone had to farm, people began doing other jobs like pottery and metalworking, a concept known as this.
What is job specialization?
This is the process of taming wild animals and breeding them for human use, such as milk, wool, or labor.
What is domestication?
These are the two major rivers that bordered the civilization of Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
This pillar refers to the organization of a society into different layers based on wealth, power, and jobs.
What is a social structure/hierarchy?
This phrase summarizes the strict, matching-punishment philosophy found throughout the laws of Hammurabi.
What is, "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth"?
Rivers flooded every year, leaving behind this super-powered natural fertilizer for crops.
What is silt?
Unlike Paleolithic people who lived in caves or temporary tents, Neolithic people lived in these kinds of structures.
What are permanent houses/settlements?
This is the rich, fertile soil deposited on riverbanks after annual flooding, making farming highly successful.
What is silt?
Large public works, such as the Ziggurats of Mesopotamia or the Pyramids of Egypt, fall under this specific pillar.
What is technology?
Egyptian rulers were given this title.
What is Pharaohs?
This term is given to large population hubs that serve as centers for regional trade, marketplaces, and politics.
What is advanced cities?
This sharp stone material was the primary resource used by Paleolithic humans to create axes, spears, and cutting tools.
What is flint?
To survive in areas with little rainfall, ancient humans built canals and ditches using this specific technology to bring water to their dry fields.
What is irrigation?
This group of people held immense power in early civilizations because they were the only ones who knew how to read and write.
This massive, tiered temple structure was built in the center of Mesopotamian city-states to honor their chief god.
What is a ziggurat?
Humans learned to melt copper and tin together to create this material that was instrumental in strengthening early civilizations.
What is bronze?