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The Beginning of Civilization
Chapter One Test Review
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History
8th Grade
08/25/2011

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paleolithic
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"Old Stone Age"
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empire
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A group of many different lands under one ruler
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Epic of Gilgamesh
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A long poem that tells the story of a hero; it is also the world's oldest story
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Assyrians
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Built a great army to protect their lands from invasion
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Nebuchadnezzar
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Chaldean king who built the Hanging Gardens to please his wife
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Assyrians
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Developed a way of making iron strong enough to use for weapons
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Chaldeans
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Group who rebelled against the Assyrians
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Sargon
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King of Akkadians who conquered all of Mesopotamia
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Jericho
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One of the oldest known villages of the Neolithic time
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Archaeologists
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People who study artifacts and fossils to help them understand the past
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Inventions of the Sumerians
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Plow, sailboat, wheel
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Members of the Mesopotamian upper class
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Priests and kings
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Artisans
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Skilled workers who made metal products, cloth, or pottery
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Cuneiform
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Sumerian writing system
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Domestication
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Taming of plants and animals for use by humans
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artifacts
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Things made by humans long ago
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Ice Ages
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Times of extreme cold when great sheets of ice covered parts of the earth
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Hammurabi
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Wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life
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bronze
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a mixture of copper and tin
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irrigation
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building dams,channels,walls, and ditches to bring water to crops
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Historian
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person who studies or writes about the past
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Ninevah
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the center of the Assyrians empire
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