Early Civilization & Ancient Mesopotamia

Name of time period during which early people roamed around in search of food & did not farm.

• Paleolithic
• secondary
• primary
• ethnocentric

Term for people who go from place to place; do not have a permanent home

• job specialization
• artifacts
• nomads

Feature of civilization; term for expensive projects organized by governments which benefit the community as a whole

• public works
• farm or domesticate animals
• primary

In order to create civilization, people had to learn to ____ because this allowed them to stay in one place

• religion
• farm or domesticate animals
• ethnocentric

We no longer use the BC/AD system because it is ______ from the point of view of a particular group of people.

• nomads
• secondary
• ethnocentric

Name of the geographical area between the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers.

• Cyrus
• Mesopotamia
• Darius

List the 5 Ancient Mesopotamian civilizations in chronological order

• Sumer, Babylon, Assyria, Chaldea, Persia
• Persia, Sumer, Babylon, Cyrus, Darius
• Phonecia, Sumer, Assyria, Cyrus, Egypt

Mesopotamian civilization which created a sound-based alphabet

• Mesopotamian
• Nebuchadnezzar
• sea traders
• Phoenicians

Political arrangement of Sumer, in which each city governed itself

• cultural diffusion
• city-states
• cuneiform

The Lydians affected the Persian economy by influencing the Persians to use ____.

• barter
• coins
• sea traders