World History Unit 1

A system of writing first developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia c. 3500-3000 BCE.

A society or organization founded for a religious, educational, social, or similar purpose.

Techniques, skills, methods and processes used in the production of goods or services.

People who live chiefly by hunting, fishing, and harvesting wild food.

A complex society with cities, social classes, writing, and control over the environment.

In a complex society, the ability of people to build different skills because of abundant food.

A worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand.

Exchange of goods or services for other goods or services without using money.

A sequence of rulers from the same family, inheriting power throughout generations.

A territory of multiple nations or cultural groups controlled by one ruler or government.

Name for the area of the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in modern Iraq, Kuwait, and Iran.

The genus and species of modern mankind.

A Babylonian king known especially for his harsh but fair set of laws, codified in writing.

The belief in or worship of more than one god.

An item, changed or created by humans, used now to discover information about early people.

Spreading out of ways of life, traditions, or ideas from a central group through trade.

A time period lasting from 3300-600 B.C. characterized by the smelting of tin and copper alloy.

The system of beliefs and values held by a certain group of people.

The process of adapting wild plants and animals for human use.

An upright walking creature (walks on two feet).

The "Old Stone Age"; 2.6 million to 10,000 B.C.

A person who writes books or documents by hand in hieratics, cuneiform or other scripts.

"New Stone Age"; 10,000 B.C.-4,000 B.C.

People who live in different locations, moving from one place to another.

In ancient Mesopotamia, a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple.

A farming method in which fields and forests are burned to enrich soil and clear land.

Region in the Middle East which curves, from the Persian Gulf, through modern-day southern Iraq

A town or settlement that, with its surrounding territory, forms an independent "nation".