Midterm Study Guide

study of how human beings behave, how they act together, where they came from, and what makes one group of people different from another

• Anthropology

• Archaeology

• Geology

study human life in the past by examining things that people left behind.

• Anthropology

• Archaeology

• Geology

Time before written records

the many different elements that make up the way of life of a people.

The difference between wild and domesticated plants was:

Historians refer to early history in three stages based on the tools used at the time. What are the 3 early ages?

• Stone

• Bronze

• Copper

• Iron

The world's first city was:

• Catalhoyuk

• Sumer

• Assyria

• Uruk

What area of the middle east got its name form the Greek word meaning "Land between two rivers"?

• Sumeria

• Assyria

• Mesopotamia

• Egypt

World's first civilization was:

• Uruk

• Sumer

• Akkadia

• Assyria

Is an independent state that includes the city and its surrounding territory: