3. Person, Place, or Thing Advancing The Stone AgeThe Sumerians 100 200 400 300 400 300 200 400 200 100 500 100

4. A weapon, tool, or other item made by humans What is an artifact? Category 1 Question 1

5. A person who regularly moves from place to place in order to eat and survive What is a nomad? Category 1 Question 2

6. Traces of ancient plants or animals preserved in rock What is a fossil? Category 1 Question 3

7. A record keeper, typically boys from wealthy families who later became government officials What is a scribe? Category 1 Question 4

8. A skilled craftsperson who could make cloth, pottery, or metal products What is an artisan? Category 1 Question 5

9. A group of territories or nations under a single ruler or government What is an empire? Category 2 Question 1

10. Method of controlling the flow of and bringing water to a field from another place to water crops What is irrigation? Category 2 Question 2

11. The development of different types of jobs What is specialization? Category 2 Question 3

12. A complex society with cities, organized government, art, religion, class divisions, and a writing system What is a civilization? Category 2 Question 4

13. The Hittites developed a way of making this metal strong enough for weapons What is iron? Category 2 Question 5

14. Dating back to the last Ice Age, the earliest period of human history, also known as the Old Stone Age What is the Paleolithic period? Category 3 Question 1

15. The two oldest known cities What are Jericho & Catal Hϋyϋk? Category 3 Question 2

16. The time period that occurred from 8000 B.C. to 4000 B.C. It is also known as the New Stone Age What is the Neolithic period? Category 3 Question 3

17. Mesopotamia was located on a flat plain between these two rivers What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers? Category 3 Question 4

18. A group of people who make about the same amount of money and hold the same social position in society What is class? Category 3 Question 5

19. In 2340 B.C., he conquered all of Mesopotamia and set up the world’s first empire Who was Sargon? Category 4 Question 1

20. The name of the wedge- shaped writing form developed by the Sumerians. What is cuneiform? Category 4 Question 2

21. A Sumerian invention. What is the wagon wheel or plow or sailboat or mud brick or...? Category 4 Question 3

22. The name of the region formed in southern Mesopotamia by 3000 B.C. What is Sumer? Category 4 Question 4

23. Category 4 Question 5 Hero of an epic poem that travels the world doing good deeds Who is Gilgamesh?