The First Civilizations (Ch.1)

Things made by humans long ago are called what?

• fossils

• artisans

• artifacts

• stone tools

What is another name for the "Old Stone Age?

• New Stone Age

• Neolithic Age

• prehistory

• Paleolithic Age

Which group of people developed a way of making iron strong enough to use for weapons?

• Stone Age people

• Hammurabi

• The Hittites

• Sargon

A long poem that tells the story of a hero is called what?

• epic

• sonata

• rubric

• acrostic

A group of many different lands under one ruler is called what?

• united states

• empire

• civilization

• country

Who was the Chaldean king who built the Hanging Gardens to please his wife?

• Hammuriabi

• Sargo

• Gilgamesh

• Nebuchadnezzar

Name the oldest city ever discovered. It was founded around 8,000 B.C.

• Jericho

• Nineveh

• Catal Huyuk

• Gilgamesh

When you build dams, channels, walls, and ditches to bring water to crops it is called ___________________.

• irrigation

• agriculture

• architecture

• engineering

Mesopotamia was called the _____________ because it was the first area to form permanent settlements of people.

• "land between the rivers"

• "Promised Land"

• "China's Sorrow"

• "the cradle of civilization"

Mesopotamia's climate was _______.

• temperate

• always cold

• hot and dry

• tropical