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Key Terms to Know: • Pre-History • History • Domestication • Nomads • Archaeology • Archaeologist • Division of Labor • Artifacts • Irrigation • • • • • • • • • Fertile Crescent Mesopotamia Polytheism Cuneiform City-State Scribe Empire Ziggurats Silt • • • • • • • • • Canals Surplus Division of Labor Priest Social Hierarchy Chariot Alphabet Caravan Bazaar People, places, events you should know: • • • • • Difference between the Old Stone Age and New Stone Age? Why do we move from OSA to NSA? Describe life for Nomads – why did they move around so much, etc. Be able to create a timeline Be able to explain the development of writing from Pictograph to Cuneiform Why was Hammurabi’s Code so important for Babylon, Mesopotamia, and the rest of the world? Short Answer Topics • • • Why was Mesopotamia the perfect place for the first civilizations to emerge? Be able to describe the “evolution” of mankind from nomads to civilization – Begin with what happened to make people stop wandering and finish with the emergence of an official civilization Know the differences amongst these civilizations and the major advances or achievements they were responsible for: • • • • • • The Sumerians The Akkadians The Babylonians The Assyrians The Chaldeans The Phoenicians
