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MAPS & BIG NEOLITHIC SUMERIANS EMPIRES &
POTPOURRI
HISTORY
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(& a map!) TRADERS
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Mr. Duffy said that this
thing was the key to
civilization.
What is a food surplus?
This was the dominant form
of food production for
humans for the vast majority
of hominid history.
What was hunting and
gathering?
These are the two rivers making
up Mesopotamia (label each).
What are the Tigris and
Euphrates Rivers?
These were the first hominid
to walk upright, all the time;
they spread throughout the
Eurasian continent about
300,000 years ago.
Who were homo erectus?
This is where the Hittites came from
(name & label proper area).
What is Anatolia
(Turkey)?
These are three general
forms of food acquisition
strategies used by ancient
man.
What were hunting
gathering, herding, and
farming?
These are the three kinds of
agriculture we discussed in
class.
What is dry farming,
slash and burn, and
irrigation?
These are three implications
of farming.
What are settling down
in one place, larger
families, and the
formation of
communities?
Agriculture emerged in these
three areas of the world, at
roughly the same time.
What are SW Asia (Middle
East), China, & the
Americas?
These are the five
characteristics of civilization.
What are advanced cities,
specialized workers,
complex institutions, record
keeping, and advanced
technology?
The translation of this name
means “Land Between Two
Rivers.”
What is
Mesopotamia?
Sumerians lived in these
politically independent,
economically dependent,
militarily competitive
locations.
What were city states?
The Sumerians were ______,
worshipping many gods and
goddesses.
What is polytheistic?
This is the area of the Fertile Crescent
(outline / circle the region).
What is this area?
These are three challenges to
Mesopotamian settlers, AND
the solutions for each
challenge.
What are river flooding
(irrigation / flood control),
lack of natural defenses (city
walls) and lack of natural
resources (trade)?
The Hittites were the first to
introduce this to SW Asia,
giving them a huge military
advantage – until everyone else
adopted it within a generation.
What was iron?
Hammurabi was king of this
culture, which he ruled after
conquering northern
Mesopotamia in 1792 BC.
Who were the Babylonians?
The Phoenicians are
remembered today for three
technological innovations; name
two of them.
What are (1) shipbuilding,
(2) alphabet or (3) purple
dye making?
This is (1) the definition of an
empire and (2) the difference
between a citizen and subject.
What is (1) bringing together
several peoples or nations
under one rule and (2)
citizens have more rights
than subjects?
The Hittites were racially
different than the people they
conquered in SW Asia in this
way.
What is being IndoEuropean (or non-Aramaic /
non-Semitic)?
These are the two rivers
between which the Sumerian
civilization arose, named
from west to east (or left to
right).
What are the Euphrates and
Tigris rivers?
This was the name for
Sumerian temples,
considered the home of the
gods in the city.
What were ziggurats?
This concept explains how
everything from technology to
new ideas passes between
different groups.
What is cultural diffusion?
This is why primary and
secondary sources are
different from each other,
and an example of each kind
of source.
What are (1) primary sources were
written during the time period being
studied, while secondary sources
were written after the period and (2)
nd
PS = letters, newspaper, etc & 2
source are articles or encyclopedia
entries?
These are (1) two areas of major Phoenician
colonization (circle), and (2) the reason for their
colonization in these areas.
What is (1) as marked and (2)
because the Eastern Med. were
already inhabited?