Fertile Crescent

How did the Neolithic era differ from the Paleolithic era?

• During the Neolithic Era, hunting was introduced, unlike the Paleolithic Era which introduced farming
• During the Neolithic Era, humans began to farm, unlike the Paleolithic Era, which focused on hunter-gathering

What is domestication?

• training or taming animals for a specific purpose
• study of culture
• complex culture

How did farmers in Mesopotamia channel water for their fields?

• irrigation
• plows
• ziggurats
• city-states

What divided Mesopotamia politically?

• city-states
• ziggurats
• plows
• timeshares

Where did Mesopotamians worship their gods?

• ziggurats
• cuneiform
• retaliation 
• theocracy

What word best defines "governments are ruled by religion; kings and religious leaders are the same person"

• retaliation
• theocracy
• retaliation
• cuneiform 

What invention below allowed goods to be transported across Mesopotamia?

• Cuneiform
• Wheeled wagons
• number system based on 60
• Ziggurats

What word BEST matches the definition:
Men are in charge and rule a particular civilization

• Cuneiform 
• Bureaucracy 
• Patriarchal
• Retaliation 

How did Pastoral Nomads deal with overpopulation or drought?

• They killed off their fittest members
• They attacked neighboring civilizations for relief
• They established farming communities
• They migrated out of the Fertile Crescent

What were the Hittites the first to do?

• Make the wheel
• Create bronze
• Use iron
• Create the alphabet