Why did the period known as "prehistory" end? 1200 B.C.
What made the rise of civilization possible? agriculture
Name some early technological innovations. the spear, the axe/tomahawk, shovel, etc
How did hunter/gatherers live? the hunter and gatherers were nomadic and moved from place to place
Who was King Hammurabi, and why was he important? King Hammurabi of Babylon created a series of laws known as “Hammurabi’s Code” - laws that included “an eye for an eye” and regulations of marriage, divorce, and punishments for all sorts of crimes
Define these terms:
- prehistory-The Origins and “Ages” of Human Beings
- Paleolithic Age-Earliest prehistoric age is the Paleolithic age (Old Stone Age)
- Neolithic Age-Neolithic Age (New Stone Age) was marked by advanced tool making and the beginnings of agriculture
- Agricultural Revolution-Also known as the Neolithic Revolution, this was a shift from itinerant hunting/gathering to more permanent settlements centered on agriculture (beginning in southwestern Asia)
- cuneiform- the first form of writing
- ziggurat-the Ziggurat was a Sumerian temple built on top of a “mountain” of earth
- Indo-Europeans-Indo-Europeans were people from the grasslands of the Russian steppe who introduced the horse to the Near East
Find 'em on a map:
- Mesopotamia-near present day Iraq and Iran
- Fertile Crescent- the nutrient rich land near the tigris and euphrates rivers
- Sumer-the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
- Mediterranean Sea- the body of water below present day Europe
- Asia Minor-north of the Mediterranean sea and south of the black se
- Tigris River- a river coming out of the east of the Mediterranean sea and is above the euphrates river
- Euphrates River- a river coming out of the east side of the Mediterranean sea and is below the tigris river
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