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Mesopotamia
6th history test 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Someone who tries to figure out what life was like in the ancient past. | Archaeologist |
| The remains of living things (plants, animals, people), not of things that were made. | Fossils |
| The remains of things that were man made. | Artifacts |
| A place where archaeologists wish to explore. | Site |
| A building where works of art or historical items are displayed for the public. | Museum |
| Digging for artifacts. | Excavating |
| A method used to determine the age of some living thing that has died. | Carbon Dating |
| A trip for scientific study. | Expedition |
| Cuts made in the earth to determine the size of an archaeological site. | Trenches |
| An item from the past. | Relic |
| Holes dug to determine how far down a site exists. | Trial Shaft |
| A small shovel archaeologists use to dig. | Trowel |
| The science of studying old items. | Archaeology |
| An old item that was made by people of long ago. | Artifact |
| To list and record. | Catalog |
| The culture and society developed by a group of people. | Civilization |
| The behavior patterns, beliefs, arts, and all other products of a particular group of people. | Culture |
| To convert the words of one language into the words of another. | Translate |
| Written materials. | Manuscript |
| Early people who traveled as hunters and gathers. | Nomads |
| Crescent-shaped land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Tigris and Euphrates River. | Fertile Crescent |
| A region in Mesopotami | Sumerian Empire |
| City-state in Sumer | Ur |
| British Archaeologist | Sir Charles Leonard Woolly |
| Sir Charles Leonard Woolley | Excavated Ur in 1922 proving Abraham's people existed. |
| Where is Ur? | Southern part of Iraq. |
| The Sumerian Civilization lasted this many years? | 1000 years |
| Located in modern Iraq, in the Middle East, between the Tigris and Euphrates River. | Mesopotamia |
| A type of writing used by ancient Mesopotamia's. | Cuneiform |
| This is the date of the earliest cuneiform clay tablets. | 3500 BC |
| Greek word meaning many gods. | Polytheistic |
| The famous king that was part human and part god and the most powerful person in the kingdom. | Gilgamesh |
| Ruled Babylonia from 1792 BC to 1750 BC. | Hammurabi |
| Hammurabi was one of the first rulers to have this. | Written set of laws. |
| A hill built up over the centuries. | Tell |
| This was used as a signature. | Cylinder Seal |
| Important crop that was used to make linen. | Flax |
| A writing tool | Stylus |
| Sumerian farmers may have been the first people to use this. | Wheel |
| The most important foods of the Sumerians' diet were | Fish and Bread |
| Scribes wrote with this. | Reed stylus |
| The Sumerian language had over ? symbols. | 600 |
| The Sumerians were possibly the first to use a potter's wheel to make these. | Clay pots |
| Lapis lazuli | A blue stone |
| This rose in three levels with a shrine on top. | Zigguart |
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