The First Civilizations

things made by humans long ago

• artifacts

• irragation

• scribes

a group of many different lands under one ruler

• Jericho

• scribes

• empire

• Paleolithic

one of the oldest known cities

• Berryville

• Nenavah

• Cabol

• Jericho

building dams, channels, walls and ditches to bring water to crops

• construction

• irragation

• artifacts

• propagation

record keepers who often went on the become government officials

• accountants

• mathmeticians

• scribes

• butlers

Historians call the early period of human history the_____

• Paleolithic or Old Stone Age

• Neolithic

• Ice Age

traces of plants or animals preserved in rock

• ziggurat

• fossils

• nomads

• scribes

Assyrian Empire's Capital and site of on of the world's first libraries.

• Catal Huyuk

• Jericho

• Bombay

• Nineveh

first large army to use iron weapons

• Assyrians

• Nomads

• Romans

• Chaldeans

people who regularly move from place to place

• scribes

• astronomers

• nomads

• cheftians