Fertile Crescent Test
This is for the Social Studies test on Wednsday.
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- Ancestor
- A relative who lived in the past
- Migrate
- To move to new places
- Monotheism
- The belief in only one god
- Priests
- People who performed religious ceremonies
- Social Hierarchy
- The division of society by rank or class
- Architecture
- The science of building
- Urban
- City areas
- Hammurabi's Code
- A set of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life
- Hunter-gatherer
- people who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts to survive
- Chariot
- A wheeled horse-drawn cart used in battle
- Tool
- Any handheld object that has been modified to help a person accomplish a task
- Society
- A community of people who share a common culture
- Mesolithic Era
- The Middle Stone Age
- Neolithic Era
- The New Stone Age
- Land bridge
- A strip of land connecting two continents
- Homid
- An early ancestor of humans.
- Cuneform
- The world's first system of writing
- Polytheism
- The worship of many gods
- Canals
- Human-made waterways
- Agriculture
- To farm
- Pictograph
- Picture symbols
- Scribe
- A writer
- Alphabet
- A set of letters that can be combined to form words
- Ice Ages
- Freezing times
- Empire
- Land with different territories and people under a single rule
- Prehistory
- Historians call the time before there was writing
- City-State
- Consisted of a city and all the countryside around it
- Rural
- Countryside areas
- Paleolithic Era
- The first part of the stone age.
- Epics
- Long poems that tell the stories of heroes
- Silt
- A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks
- Fertile Crescent
- A large arc of rich or fertile farmland
- Surplus
- More then they needed
- Domestication
- The process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans is called this
- Irrigation
- A way of supplying water to an area of land
- Division of labor
- The type of arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job
- Ziggurat
- A pyramid shaped temple tower
- Megaliths
- Huge stones used as monuments