Humans emerged in southwestern Africa 200,000 years ago.
Why did the period known as "prehistory" end?
The prehistory age ended because cities were being developed, population was increasing, there was better food storage, diversity in professions, writing was developed, and kings or family dynasties had emerged.
What made the rise of civilization possible?
Name some early technological innovations.
calendars, sailboats, temples, pyramids
How did hunter/gatherers live?
Hunter-gatherers lived by hunting for their own food and gathering fruits and vegetables to eat. If they did not do this, they would not survive
Hunter-gatherers lived by hunting for their own food and gathering fruits and vegetables to eat. If they did not do this, they would not survive
Who was King Hammurabi, and why was he important?
He was the king of Babylon and he created a series of codes/laws called Hammurabi's codes
Define these terms:
- prehistory - The origins and ages of human beings
- Paleolithic Age - earliest prehistoric age (Old Stone Age)
- Neolithic Age - was marked by advanced tool making and the beginnings of agriculture (New Stone Age)
- Agricultural Revolution -a shift from hunter/gathering to more permanent settlements on agriculture (beginning in southwest Asia
- cuneiform - earliest form of writing
- ziggurat - a Sumerian Temple built on top of a "mountain" of earth
- Indo-Europeans - people from the grasslands of the Russian steppe who introduced the horse to the New East
Find 'em on a map:
- Mesopotamia - Turkey, Israel, Joran, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Kuwait
- Fertile Crescent - Israel, Jordan, Syria, Iraq
- Sumer - southeast in the fertile crescent
- Mediterranean Sea - Left of Fertile Crescent
- Asia Minor - Turkey
- Tigris River - river to the north
- Euphrates River - river to the south
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