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World History T#1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ___________ is one of the oldest known cities. | Jericho |
| ___________ is nicknamed the "cradle of civilization" | Mesopatamia |
| ______________ was one of the oldest known cities, in present day Turkey. | Catal Huyuk |
| __________ was the hero of an epic who travels around the world performing great deeds. | Gilgamesh |
| __________ became rich from trade because it was located on a major trade route between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf. | Babylon |
| _____________ study artifacts and fossils to help them understand the past. | Archaeologists |
| A grand temple with a shrine on the top, like a giant squaare wedding cake was called a ________. | ziggurat |
| A group of traveling merchants is called a ________. | caravan |
| A long poem that tells the story of a hero is called an _____. | epic |
| A mixture of copper and tin is called _______. | bronze |
| An ________ was a group of many different lands under one ruler. | empire |
| Artisans, merchants, farmers, and fishers made up this group, the __________. | middle class |
| Building dams, channels, walls and ditches to bring water to crops is called ____________. | Irrigation |
| Historians called the early period of human history the ___________. | stone age |
| Mesopotamia's climate was ____ and ____. | hot, dry |
| Neolithic Period is also called the __________. | New Stone Age |
| Paleolithic Period is also called the ___________. | Old Stone Age |
| People who move reguraly from place to place in search of food were called _________. | nomads |
| People who study and write about human past are called _________. | historians |
| People who study the heavenly bodies were called __________. | astronomers |
| Record keepers who often went on to become government officials were called _________. | Scribes |
| Skilled workers who made metal products, cloth, and pottery are called _________. | artisans |
| Sumerians used _________ as a building material. | mud-bricks |
| Taming an animal or plant for use by humans is called __________. | domestication |
| The _________ devolped a way of making iron strong enough to use for weapons. | Hittites |
| The _____________ were the first large army to use iron weapons. | Assyrians |
| The _________ rebelled against the Assyrians. | Chaldeons |
| The ___________ of Babylon are known as one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. | Hanging Gardens |
| The ______________ contributed to the seven-day week to our modern-day calendar. | Chaldeans |
| The Assyrian capital, ________ was the site of one of the world's first libraries. | Ninevah |
| The center of the Chaldean empire was at ______. | Babylon |
| The Chaldean king who built the Hanging Gardens to please his wife was _________. | Nebuchadnezzar |
| The first civilizations arose in ________ because the farming conditions were good. | river valleys |
| The SUmerian writing system was called __________. | Cuneiform |
| These people created a great army to protect their lands from invasion- __________. | Assyrians |
| Things made by humans long ago are called ______. | artifacts |
| Times of extreme cold when great sheets of ice covered parts of the earth were the ________. | Ice Ages |
| Traces of plants or animals preserved in rock are called __________. | fossils |
| Upper class consisted of ____________________________. | kings, priests, and governmnet officials |
| What revolutionary change took place during the Neolithic Age? | farming |
| Which mountain people captured Babylon in 539 B.c.? | Persians |
| Which of these are Sumerian inventions?: plow, sailboat, and wheel. | All of them |
| Who was the king of the Akkadians who conqured all of Mesopotamia? | Sargon |
| Who wrote the legal code that covered most areas of daily life? | Hammrabi |
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