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