Chapter 1- Early Civilizations 2021-2022

things made by humans long ago

• irrigation

• artifacts

• empire

• epic

"cradle of civilization"

• Mesopotamia

• Hittites

• Paleolithic

Chaldean king who built the Hanging Gardens to please his wife.

• Jericho

• Hittites

• Nebuchadnezzar

One of the oldest known cities

• Mesopotamia

• Jericho

• Paleolithic

"Old Stone Age"

• Paleolithic

• Nebuchadnezzar

• artifacts

Sumerian building material

• steel

• concrete

• brick

• mud brick

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

• irrigation

• empire

• epic

• artifact

a long poem that tells the story of a hero

• empire

• artifact

• mud brick

• epic

developed a way of making iron strong enough to use for weapons

• Hittites

• Mesopotamians

• Assyrians

A group of many different lands under one ruler

• empire

• epic

• artifact

• irrigation