Early Humans
people who regularly move from place to place
nomads
Mesopotamia means:
the land between two rivers
Why did the Assyrians have such a good military?
the people in the military had different jobs, they developed iron weapons
People who hunt for evidence buried in the ground where settlements might once have been
Archeologists
female hominid in Ethiopia discovered by Donald Johanson
Lucy
paleolithic people needed ____ in order to survive the Ice Ages.
fire
complex societies that have organized governments, art, religion, class divisions, and a writing system
civilization
name the capital of the Assyrian empire
Nineveh
tools, weapons, and other things made by humans
artifacts
what group of people developed the 360 degree circle?
Sumerians
Define Domesticate
to tame animals for human use
name the two rivers that surrounded Mesopotamia
Tigris & Euphrates
caravans
groups of traveling merchants
irrigation
king who wrote a law code
Hammurabi
Some of the earlies known communities have been found in the Middle East. One of the oldest is _________.
Jericho
ziggurat
temple
"mountain of god"
"hill of heaven"
people who study the heavenly bodies
astronomers
artisan
what group of people was the first to develop a sundail and the seven-day week?
Chaldeans
What was the Agricultural Revolution?
when the people began to domesticate animals, and realized they could plant seeds to grow food
writing system of the Sumerians
Cuneiform
Describe Assyrian war methods, how did they attack cities?
war machines
wheeled battering ram
iron weapons
fire
removed people from the city when they took it over
after years of training in reading and writing, boys became _________ or record keepers.
scribes
name the kind who build the hanging gardens of Babylon for his wife
Nebuchadnezzar