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The Rise of Cities
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This and that
Mesopotamia
Where is that?
100
The first lifestyle ancient people had.
What is nomadic or hunter-gatherer?
100
People settled near this physical feature. Give the feature and one reason for settling there.
What is near rivers, because of the fertile soil. (also trade and travel)
100
These are people that know the skill of written language and as their specialization they write records, documents, letters, etc.
Who are scribes?
100
this is the modern day location (name of country) of Mesopotamia.?
What is Iraq?
100
This is the name of the river that the early peoples of ancient India settled near.
What is the Indus River?
200
Once there was more than enough food, not everyone had to spend time growing it. People could develop other skills and had a different one of these.
What is specialization?
200
This means that the land is good for growing crops because it has more nutrients in the soil.
What is fertile land
200
Ms. Jasti Currie is going to open a vegan café. Ms. Hopkins is going to teach knitting, and Ms. Steimer is going to teach.?*ECON TERM*
What is specialization?
200
These are the names of the two rivers in Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
200
This is the location of the city like Ur and Sumer.
Where is Mesopotamia?
300
This capital resource helps bring water from a river to your fields.
What is irrigation canal?
300
This is the first civilization.
What is Mesopotamia?
300
This is why Hammurabi's legal system was so significant.
What is because it was the first time a government had laws written down, known to people, permanent laws, AND/OR applied to all?
300
This is the name of the writing system in Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
300
This is the name of the city-state that Hammurabi ruled in Mesopotamia.
What is Babylon?
400
After the population grew because there was more food to feed them & amount of resources grew, people eventually needed leadership and laws to keep this larger society growing. ???
What is government?
400
This is the civilization that cities like Harappa and Mohenjo Daro.
What is the Indus Valley or Indus River Valley Civilization?
400
Decide which came first, Surplus or Capital Resources?
What is capital resources?
400
This FEATURE of civilization includes literature like the Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia. it is often regarded as the first great work of literature.?
What is highly developed culture?
400
This is the modern location of the Ancient Indus Valley settlements.
What is Pakistan?
500
This was the turning point in ancient humans lives because it caused so many lasting changes.
What is surplus?
500
A big reason why we don't know that much about the Indus Valley people.
What is because we haven't translated their language? What is because we only discovered their sites more recently?
500
This is what a tablet could tell you about a civilization.
What is that they had a writing system OR a developed culture OR a way to communicate or keep records?
500
Ziggurats, priests, and religion are examples of this feature.
What is highly developed culture?
500
The largest ancient civilization.
What is the Indus Valley Civilization?