| A | B |
|---|
| civilization | complex society |
| irrigation | water directed to fields of crops |
| specialized labor | people skilled at specific jobs |
| city-state | independent political units that controlled areas of farmland |
| empire | What is a group of many different lands under one ruler called? |
| polytheistic | Word that means to worship many gods |
| ziggurats | What was a grand temple with a shrine at the top, like a giant square wedding cake |
| scribes | Who were record keepers who often went on to become government officials |
| cuneiform | Name given to wedge shaped writing used by the Sumerians. |
| class | group of people |
| bronze | A mixture of tin and copper |
| Tigris and Euphrates | Name the two important rivers of Mesopotamia |
| on a river | ancient civilizations chose what landform to settle by |
| Hunting and gathering | The first job or occupation before civilization existed |
| Assyrian | These people were traders with a highly skilled army |
| Paleolithic | Which Prehistoric era came first? |
| Neolithic | Which Prehistoric era came last |
| Africa | On what continent have the oldest human bones been found? |
| Mesopotamia | Where did the first farmers live? |
| Cave | What did the first Prehistoric men use for shelter? |
| Religious ceremonies | Why did prehistoric man do cave paintings? |
| Astronomers | What name is given to people who study heavenly bodies? |
| Assyrians | Who were the first people to organize a large army using iron weapons? |
| Neolithic | The name means "New Stone Age" |
| fossils | What are traces of plants or animals preserved in rock called? |
| Nineveh | Name the Assyrian capital that had one of the first libraries. |
| Nomads | What were people called who regularly moved from place to place |
| Gilgamesh | Who was the hero of an epic poem who travels around the world performing great deeds? |
| artifacts | name given to things made by humans long ago. |
| epic | What is a long poem called that tells the story of a hero? |
| irrigation | what is building dams, channels, walls, and ditches to bring water to crops? |
| Nebuchadnezzar | What Chaldean king built the Hanging Gardens to please his wife? |
| hot and dry | What was Mesopotamia's climate like? |
| artisans | Who were the skilled workers who made metal products, cloth or potter? |
| Hammurabi | Who wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life? |
| Histsorians | What are people called who study and write about the human past? |
| Babylon | Name the center of the Chaldean empire. |
| bronze | This is a mixture of copper and tin |
| Ice Age | Name the time of extreme cold when great sheets of ice covered parts of the earth. |
| middle class | Artisans, merchants, farmers and fishers made up this group. |
| slaves | Who made up the lower class? |
| caravan | What is a group of traveling merchants called? |
| Archaeologists | This is the study of artifacts and fossils to help understand the past. |
| Chaldeans | Who rebelled and overthrew the Assyrians? |
| they were war heros | How were the first kings chosen? |
| wheel, plow, sailboat | What did the Sumerians invent? |
| domestication | What is the name given to taming an animal or plant for use by humans? |
| kings and priests | Who were members of the upper class? |
| Trade | What helped spread ideas around the world? |
| hereditary | Something that passes to the children when the parent dies is? |
| Assyrians | Who built a great army to protect their lands from invasion? |
