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