Study Guide to Chapter 1
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
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| Empire | A group of many different lands under one ruler
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| Nebuchadnezzar | Chaldean king who built the Hanging Gardens. Ruled all of Mesopotamia
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| Assyrians | People who had the first large army to use iron weapons
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| Babylon | The center of the Chaldean Empire
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| Caravan | Group of traveling Merchants
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| Sumerian Inventions | Plow, wheel, sailboat, cuneiform, writing, and ziggurants
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| Domestication | Taming an naimal or plant for use by humans
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| Trade | to exchange goods with others helping to spread ideas around the world
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| Nomads | People who move from place to place on a regular basis
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| Artifacts | Things made by humans long ago
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| Archaeologist | Person who studies artifacts and fossils to understand the past.
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| Catal Huyuk | One of the oldest cities in present day turkey
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| Farming | Important event in human history, People were able to grow their own crops, settle in one place, trade with others
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| Tigris and Euphrates | Two rivers running through Mesopotamia
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| Middle Class | Artisans, merchants, farmers, and fisherman
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| Historians | People who study and write about the human past
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| Fossils | Any evidence of past life (plants or animals) preserved in the rocks
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| Ice Age | Period of imte when great sheets of ice covered parts of the earth
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| Bronze | Mixture of copper and tin
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| Jericho | One of the oldest known cities
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| Mud Bricks | Building material for homes
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| Hittites | Developed a way of making iron stonger
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| Mesopotamia | Area of the middle east known as the "cradle of civilization". Climae is how and dry.
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| Epic | A long poem about a hero
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| Paleolithic | "Old Stone Age"
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| Irrigation | A way of bringing water to crops by building dams, walls and ditches
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| Artisans | Skilled workers who made metal products, cloth, and pottery
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| Hammurabi | Leader famous for his law code
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| Cuneiform | System of writing used by the Sumerians
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| Nineveh | Center of Chaldean Empire and site of one of the oldest libraries
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| Gilgemesh | A hero of an epic who travels and the world performing great deeds
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| scribes | record keepers who went on to become government officials
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| neolithic | New Stone Age
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| ziggurat | A grand temple with a shrine at the top
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| Sargon | King of the Akkadians who conquered all of Mesopotamia
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| Astronomers | People who study heavenly bodies
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