SS6 Ch 1 Nelson: Early Humans

Things made by humans long ago.

• epic

• history

• artifacts

• empire

Mesopotamia's climate was…

• always cold  

• tropical   

• hot and dry

Skilled workers who produce products that are traded.

• Heroes    

• priests   

• scribes   

• artisans

He wrote the first legal code that covered most areas of daily life.

• Nineveh  

• Hammurabi 

• Nebuchadnezzar

Building dams, channels, walls, and ditches to bring water to crops.

• irrigation

• forts  

• army

Means the land between two rivers and the cradle of civilization.

• Hittites     

• Paleolithic

• Mesopotamia

A group of many different lands under one ruler.

• epic  

• artisan

• state
• empire

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

• Hammurabi

• King Sargon of Akkad
• Nebuchadnezzar

• Cyrus the Great

Developed a way of making iron weapons.

• Hittites

• Sumerians

• nomads

People who study and write about the human past.

• historians
• scribes

• astronomers