The Colossal, Gigantic Unit One Social Studies Review

If you were in ancient Sumer, you might see a levee beside a river. Why was the levee built?

What is the evidence that prehistoric cave artists built wood structures (scaffolding) to stand on?

Which invention made it possible for Sumerian armies to use chariots?

What is the best title for these words: Spinners, Weavers, Basket Makers, Toolmakers?

Records of the goods people exchanged were made on

Which statement about Homo habilis (Handy Man) describes a capability that helped their group survive?

Social scientists are scholars who study

An object made or used by people in the past is called

Why did Neolithic people trade?

A problem that all four Mesopotamian empires had was difficulty in was

Why do historians read diaries and letters from the past?

The Akkadians used steles to

Which evidence shows that the Sumerians lived after the Stone Age?

What change began the Neolithic Age, about 8000 B.C.E.?

Why were Sumerian communities called city-states?

For what is Hammurabi best remembered?

What advantage over previous hominid groups did the invention of the spear thrower give to early modern humans?

The Assyrians were famous for...

Homo erectus was the first hominid to use...

Why was the Fertile Crescent the site of many early settlements?

Define Nomad:

How did people in the Paleolithic Age get their food?

Where was the Fertile Crescent located?

The Euphrates River is about 1,700 miles long.

Who conquered the land of the Israelites and took many Israelites to Babylon as captives?

Who in Sumer was responsible for collecting taxes, enforcing laws, and leading the army?

Which of these activities would an archaeologist most likely do?

Which of these leaders of empires came first?

Why did people in the Neolithic Age live together in larger groups, compared with earlier times?

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were a wonder of the ancient world. Where were they planted?

Why was silt a problem for the people of Sumer?

Which city was the capital of the Assyrian Empire?

Homo habilis (Handy Man) is known for being...

Once Homo erectus had food and shelter, they had time to create art that expressed their feelings about the world.

Which group of hominids are modern humans considered to be members of?

Which Sumerian belief about the king helped strengthen the social order?

What trait made Homo erectus well suited for traveling?

The Sumerian civilization had a social structure with different social levels and jobs. A social structure is...

Which one of these inventions most affected the food supply in Sumer?

The name of Mesopotamia comes from its location, which was

What is a hominid?

Which of these ancient Sumerians most likely lived in a two-story house near the center of the city?

Which question about the past does cave art most help to answer?

What feature did the Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian empires have that the Sumerians lacked to become an empire?

Define domesticate:

Which of these is a human-made feature that a geographer might study?

What development caused food shortages in the Zagros foothills?

As tool makers, early moderns humans were not as skilled as Neanderthals.

Because of their larger brains, Homo erectus were able to invent more complex tools, like hand axes made of stone.

How did dividing up the work help communities produce more to meet their needs?

The Zagros Mountains lie between the waters of the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf?

People who study the past are most like

A scientist who studies people, customs, ancient times and artifacts that people left behind is called...

What was a problem caused by Sumerian city-states’ independence from one another?

Why did the villages of Sumer depend on each other?

What was the chief purpose of dams and reservoirs?

The people of Sumer constructed moats to

The job of a scribe was to

Homo erectus was the first hominid to use fire for warmth and cooking.

Which invention added strength and beauty to Sumerian buildings?