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Vocab
Mesopotamia
Agricultural Revolution
Prehistory
Geography
100
another name for the Old Stone Age
What is the Paleolithic?
100
The earliest Mesopotamian Kingdom
What is Sumer?
100
Having an extra amount of something.
What is a surplus?
100
The study of the past using bones, artifacts and other buried clues
What is Archaeology?
100
The country north of Israel, where the Phoenicians lived
What is Lebanon?
200
The turning point in history when humans settled down and lived in farming communities near rivers
What is the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution?
200
Babylonian leader who created the first recorded set of human laws
Who is Hammurabi?
200
An invention that allowed early farmers to store their food for future use.
What is pottery?
200
Way of life that involves a nomadic lifestyle and searching for different kinds of wild food
What is the hunter-gatherer lifestyle?
200
The country where most of the Tigris and Euphrates are located today
What is Iraq?
300
The earliest form of writing, invented by the Sumerians.
What is cuneiform?
300
Two important contributions of the Phoenicians
What are sailing/trading and the first alphabet?
300
a way of life that involves following domesticated animals around and living off of them for food, animal products, and trade
What is nomadic pastoralism?
300
An important invention for the earliest humans that allowed them to communicate and represent symbolic ideas
What is language and/or art?
300
Two countries that the Nile River flows through today
What is Egypt and Sudan?
400
A Mesopotamian temple in the shape of a pyramid
What is a ziggurat?
400
The term that describes the shape of the good farming lands where civilization first appeared in Middle East
What is the Fertile Crescent?
400
Four reasons why early humans settled near rivers
What are (1) fresh water to drink/use (2) transportation (3) fish to eat (4) water for farming
400
An early hominid that inter-bred with humans, lived in Europe and went extinct between 20,000-30,000 years ago
Who are the Neanderthals?
400
The "land between the rivers" in Latin
What is Mesopotamia?
500
The technique that archaeologists and scientists use to determine how old an artifact is
What is radiocarbon dating?
500
A government only as big as city and its surrounding area
What is a city-state?
500
The Eight Characteristics of Civilization
What are cities, public works, art & architecture, religion, government/military, record keeping/writing, social classes and job specialization?
500
The place where all humans originated before they spread around the world (be specific)
What is East Africa?
500
The four earliest river civilizations of the Eastern Hemisphere
What are Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Indus River Valley, Ancient China?