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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 What is a nomad? Category 1 Question 2

6. A political district What is a province? Category 1 Question 3

7. A record keeper What is a scribe? Category 1 Question 4

8. A skilled craftsperson 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 govt., art, religion, class divisions, and a writing system What is a civilization? Category 2 Question 4

13. An independent state made up of a city and the surrounding land and villages. What is a city-state? Category 2 Question 5

14. The earliest period of human history also known as the Old Stone Age. What is the Paleolithic period? Category 3 Question 1

15. During the early stone age, people were able to tame this in order to survive in the Ice Ages. What is fire? 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. The name of the region formed in southern Mesopotamia by 3000 B.C. What is Sumer? Category 3 Question 5

19. Kings, priests, and government officials are all members of this social class. What is the upper class? 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? Category 4 Question 3

22. Hammurabi is best known for this. What is his collection of laws or law code? Category 4 Question 4

23. Category 4 Question 5 The Assyrian army was the first large army to use this. What are iron weapons?