 | Term | Definition |
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Neolithic Revolution |
The shift from gathering to food producing |
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Why Mesopotamians built canals |
They needed a way to control the rivers flow |
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Why city-states fought each other for farm land |
The wanted to grow food |
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Natural obstacles (mountains to the east and north) |
This lead the Phoenecians to use the sea for trade. |
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Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar |
They built up Babylon |
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A historian |
least likely to research the bones of a group of people |
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sequence of events show how Mesopotamia developed |
Settled where crops could grow, grew population... |
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Nineveh |
Assyrian capital |
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A location near food and water |
early people look for this when looking for a place to settle |
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Archeologist |
Most likely to explore the site of a battle |
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Farming in the stone age |
Allowed people to build a permanent settlement |
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Ziggurats |
were tall to honor gods |
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Cuneiform |
describes wedge shaped symbols |
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Effect tools have on people |
Increases chances of survival |
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Steady food supplies |
represent development of a civilization |
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Technology that the Hittites and Assyrians used in battle |
iron weapons and chariots |
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Culture |
The beliefs, customs and art of a group |
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Society |
A community of people who share a common culture |
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THe difference between a primary source and and artifact |
primary source is written, artifact is an object |
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People came to work as craftsmen in Mesopotamia |
because of a division of labor |
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Political unit of Carthage |
A colony |
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Canals vs. Rivers |
man made vs natural |
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When the first city developed in Mesopotamia |
3000 BC to 4000 BC |
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First group to rule after Hammirabi |
Hittites |
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Cedar wood |
resource of Phoenecia |
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The Phoenetian alphabet |
spread across the trade route |
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Farming |
was not easy in Mesopotamia |
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Babylon |
was located near present-day Iraq |
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Hammurabi's code |
was not equal |
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Physical geographer |
study landforms |
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An example of weather |
is if it rain today |
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Two land features gave Mesopotamia it's name |
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers |
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Scribes |
people who can read and write. (Powerful in Sumerian society) |
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