Hominids Hunter-Gatherers Agricultural Revolution Fertile Crescent First Civilization
100
What is Homo habilis?
The first hominid to make tools.
100
What is food?
Hunter-gatherer societies moved often so they could get this.
100
What was a sheep?
The first animal to be domesticated.
100
What is The Fertile Crescent?
Another name for Mesopotamia.
100
What is near major rivers?
Mesopotamia was able to support the growth of an early civilization because it was near these.
200
What is Africa?
Cro-Magnon man was first found on this continent.
200
What are bands?
Hunter-gatherer societies lived in these groups.
200
What were wheat and barley?
The first plants to be domesticated.
200
What were the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
Mesopotamia was an ideal place for agriculture because these brought water for irrigation.
200
What is Mesopotamia?
The first organized system of government was started here.
300
What is Africa?
Homo sapiens originated on this continent.
300
What are North America and Asia?
During the Ice Age, Hunter-gatherers moved across a land bridge connecting these two continents.
300
What is the Neolithic Age?
Humans began to grow crops and herd animals during this time.
300
Who were the Sumerians?
By 2000 BCE these people lived in Southern Mesopotamia.
300
What is cuneiform?
The Code of Hammurabi was spread through the use of this.
400
What is Europe?
The first Paleolithic era cave paintings were found on this continent.
400
What is a surplus of foods that they could trade?
Hunter-gatherers got goods they could not make because they had this.
400
What is irrigation of farmland?
This farming technique allowed Sumerians to grow a surplus of food.
400
What is river water?
CIty-states of Mesopotamia often went to war for control of this.
400
What is because water made it easier to transport goods to other cities?
The main reason why many major cities developed on rivers, lakes, and oceans.
500
What is Cro-Magnon?
The first artists to carve designs in their tools and also paint caves was this ancestor.
500
What is a new crop the next year?
Hunter-gatherer societies did not gather all of the wild grains so they would have this.
500
What is when humans began farming?
The Agricultural Revolution is the name for this change.
500
What is Mesopotamia?
The modern country of Iraq was a part of this region with an ancient civilization.
500
What was helping people understand the laws and how to enforce them?
Hammurabi's Code affected Babylonian society this way.






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