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8th gd world hx 3-4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| People who move from place to place | Nomads |
| Long periods of extreme cold | Ice age |
| Relating to the earliest period of the stone age | Paleolithic |
| Area in France where cave paintings were discovered | Lascaux |
| Tools and methods to perform tasks | Technology |
| Who do historians call the general early period of human history? | Stone Age |
| What is the best example of how an advance in the use of technology made life less difficult for Paleolithic people? | They discovered how to use fire |
| One of the most important technologies used by the Paleolithic people was | Tools |
| What advancement during the Paleolithic Age made communication between people easier? | The development of spoken language |
| Greek for land between the rivers | Mesopotamia |
| Complex societies that have organized governments, culture and writing | Civilization |
| A method that brings water to crops | Irrigation |
| Has its own government but is not part of any larger unit | City-state |
| A form of writing developed by the people of Sumer | Cuneiform |
| Sumerian templeto honor their chief god was called a | Ziggurat |
| Although most Sumerians were farmers many made metal cloth and pottery because they were skilled | Artisans |
| The few Sumerians who learned how to write often held high positions in society as what | Scribes |
| The calendar developed by the Sumerians was based on | The number 60 |
| After the last ice age ended many nomads moved into areas with a milder climate and fertile land. As a consequence - BLANK - eventually replaced hunting and gathering as the main source of food . | Farming |
| BLANK the organized growing of food on a regular schedule allowed people to produce a constant food supply | Systematic agriculture |
| During the Neolithic age people settled in BLANK located near fields and water sources | Villages |
| The finding of BLANK in catalhuyuk is evidence that religion was becoming an important part of people’s lives | Shrines |
| During the late Neolithic age craftspeople in Western Asia discovered that mixing copper and tin formed BLANK - an important technological breakthrough | Bronze |
| What was the most important and long lasting effect that the agricultural revolution had on peoples lives? | The population grew at a faster rate and people settled into communities |
| As food became more abundant fewer people were needed in the fields. As a result some people became | Artisans or skilled workers |
| A group of traveling merchants | Caravan |
| The Assyrian empire’s capital city | Nineveh |
| A political district | Province |
| Chaldean king who rebuilt babylon | Nebuchadnezzar |
| One who studies the stars and planets | Astronomers |
| What did the Hittites teach the Assyrians that helped make their army stronger? | How to use stronger metals such as iron for weaponry |
| Which part of Babylon was known as one of the seven wonders of the world ? | Hanging gardens |
| Babylon became rich from trade because it was located on a major trade route between the Mediterranean Sea and BLANK | Persian Gulf |
| In 612 BC the Chaldeans defeated whom? | Assyria |
| Which mountain people captured Babylon in 539 BC? | The persians |
| From what continent did first humans come? | Southwest Asia |
| What is a historian? | A person who studies and writes about the past |
| What is an archaeologist? | A person who studies human history and prehistory through the excavation and analysis of artifacts. |
| What is a primary source? | First hand account of an event |
| What is a secondary source? | An analysis or restatement of a primary source |
| Why was it called the Stone Age? | Because people made tools and weapons from stone. |
| Why is Otzi the iceman such an important discovery? | Oldest known mummy |
| How did Otzi die? | It is believed he was murdered - bled to death from an arrow |
| Why are cave paintings an important tool for understanding our ancestors ? | Helped record history |
| Three Neolithic cities | 1- Eridu 2- Uruk 3 - Ur |
| An important religious site to some Neolithic people was | Shrines |
| Civilizations are complex societies with | Cities and governments |
| What dis civilizations of Mesopotamia do to get water to their crops? | Irrigation |
| What was a problem if you lived between the rivers? | Flooding |
| BLANK was the first group of city- states that acted like a country in Mesopotamia | Sumer |
| City states had their own what? | Government - money - and police |
| Religious temples in Sumer were called | Ziggurats |
| The Sumerian writing system was called | Cuneiform |
| This famous Babylonian king wrote the first legal code. It covered most areas of daily life. Some laws were very cruel. Others were considered wise and fair. | Hammurabi |
| Spiritually the people of Mesopotamia were polytheists | They worshipped many gods |
| Who is credited with the invention of the wheel, cuneiform writing, iron weapons and the plow | Sumerians |
| The Akkadians, Assyrians, Babylonians and Chaldeans were major civil actions in | Mesopotamia |
| The Akkadians established the first what? | Empire which means a group of many lands and many different people under one ruler |
| Who built the Gate of Ishtar, the Tower of Babel and the Hanging Gardens? | The Babylonians |
| The famous Chaldean king who would eventually conquer Mesopotamia and even the city of Jerusalem in the Holy Land? | King Nebuchadnezzar |
| The civilation led by Cyrus the great would conquer the Chaldeans to bring about the end of the early Mesopotamian civilizations? | Persia |
| What did Assyrian kings hunt to show their power? | Lions |
| What was the importance of the Epic of Gilgamesh? | The worlds oldest story |
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