Prehistoric Vocabulary 1 and 2
May 19, 2015
Prehistoric Vocabulary
1 and 2
excavation
• The exposure, processing and recording of archaeological remains
backgammon• One of the
world’s oldest boardgames
dates
• The fruit of a date palm tree
Plow
•A farm tool used for breaking up soil.
iron
• An element that can be used to create strong tools, structures, and machines.
ziggurat
• The sight of the temple to the main god or goddess of a Sumerian city.
empire
• Many territories and people controlled by one government
Sumerians
• People from the earliest-known civilization
Babylonians
• People from an ancient region in southwest Mesopotamia
Assyrians
• People from an ancient region in northern Mesopotamia
Tigris
• A river in Iraq and Turkey
Euphrates
• A river that flows south from Turkey through Syria and Iraq
Ur
• A city in ancient Sumer
cuneiform
• A form of writing that used groups of wedges and lines; used to write several Fertile Crescent languages
supply
• How many or how much of a resource there is
demand
• How much people desire or need a resource