Ch.1: Mesopotamia

people who study and write about the human past

• archaeologists
• historians
• fossils
• artifacts
• City-states

people who hunt for evidence buried in the ground where settlements might once have been

• historians
• fossils
• anthropologists
• archaeologists
• artifiacts

weapons, tools, and other things made by humans

• fossils
• artifacts
• nomads
• scribe
• technology

traces of plants or animals that have been preserved in rock

• archaeologists
• anthropologists
• fossils
• technology
• Sumer

focus on human society, they study how humans developed and how they relate to one another

• sumer
• nomads
• anthropologists
• Sumer
• Domesticate

paleolithic people who were always on the move

• raiders
• technology
• Sumer
• nomads
• Hittites

tools and methods to help humans perform tasks

• hammer

• domesticate

• technology

• Hittites

• Specilization

tame animals and plants for human use

• lion
• specialization
• Sumer
• domesticate
• Assyria

the development of different kinds of jobs

• sumer
• Mesopotamia
• Hammurabi
• specialization
• Ziggurat

the land between the rivers

• waterfall
• Sumer
• Mesopotamia
• City-state
• Provinces