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Vocabulary
100
People who study and write about the human past
Who are historians?
100
The region that was once called Mesopotamia is now called this.
What is Iraq?
100
The Paleolithic people developed this very important technology.
What are tools?
100
They had a well organized army, making them strong.
Who are the Assyrians?
100
Group of many different lands under one ruler.
What is an empire?
200
They were able to survive because they used FIRE
Who are the Paleolithic people?
200
Times of extreme cold when sheets of ice covered parts of the earth.
What is the Ice Ages?
200
The Sumerians invented this.
What is the wheel, sailboat, etc.
200
King of the Akkadians who conquered all of Mesopotamia?
Who is Sargon?
200
A group of traveling merchants.
What is a caravan?
300
Study artifacts and fossils to help them understand the past.
Who are archeologists?
300
Literally means "land between the rivers"
What is Mesopotamia?
300
Invented the Cuneiform way of writing.
Who are the Sumerians?
300
These were probably war heroes.
Who were the first kings?
300
The few Sumerians who learned to write, holding high positions in society.
What is a scribe?
400
These people were the first farmers. They didn't hunt and gather anymore.
Who are the Neolithic people?
400
The two rivers that border Mesopotamia.
What are the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers?
400
This invention by the Sumerians was a holy place, surrounded by a big wall.
What is a ziggurat?
400
The Paleolithic people were always on the move. They were called..
What are Nomads?
400
A skilled craftperson who makes metal products, cloth or pottery.
What is an artisan?
500
Wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life.
Who is Hammurabi?
500
The first civilizations arose here because conditions for farming were good.
What are river valleys?
500
The Chaldean Empire developed this.
What is the seven day calendar?
500
These mountain people captured Babylon in 539 B.C.
Who are the Persians?
500
A long poem that tells the story of a hero
What is an epic?