1. Paleolithic people

2. Paleolithic People Lived during what time period?

3. Ice Age

4. Paleolithic People How did they survive?

5. Paleolithic People By using fire

6. Sumerians

8. What did they believe?

9. Sumerians believed in Many Gods

10. What did the Sumerians accomplish?

11. Sumerians Built grand temples

12. Sumerians Developed a writing system

13. Sumerians Built cities

14. Sumerians Formed governments ruled by Kings

15. Name some of the Sumerian inventions

16. sailboat

17. Plow

18. Wheel

20. Sumerian Scribes Learned to write Held high positions

21. Hammurabi Who was he? A Babylonian king What is he know for? Wrote a code of law called the Code of Hammurabi

22. King Solomon Who was he? King of the Israelites What did he do? Heavily tax the people to pay for his great buildings

23. Hernan Cortes Spanish Soldier who Conquered the Aztecs by using Guns, horses, and an epidemic (a disease that spreads)

24. Pachacuti Incan king What type of government did he create? a strong central government

25. Ice Age How would you describe it?

26. Ice Age A period of extreme cold when great sheets of ice covered the earth

27. Neolithic Age What is another name for it? New Stone Age What marked its beginning?

28. Neolithic Age People started farming

29. Tigris River/Euphrates River Why do we call it the cradle of civilization? Believed to be the location of the first known cities

30. Tigris & Euphrates Rivers

31. Why did people settle along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers Conditions were good for farming Soil was rich due to flooding Climate was hot and dry

32. Mesopotamia What does it mean? The land between two rivers.

33. Book of the Dead What was it? Collection of spells and prayers Why was it studied? Studied by Egyptians to obtain life after death

34. Nile River Describe it? The longest river in the world How did the Egyptians take advantage of the floods? They became successful farmers Why? Flooding fertilized the soil

35. Torah What is it? The Hebrew Holy Book

36. Mayan Civilization Where was in located? In a dense forest Describe the people? Warlike; warriors Why did it decline? Conquered by the Spanish explorers

37. Native Americans What was the major cause of death for Native Americans? Measles and Smallpox

38. Mound Builders

39. Where were they located? Between the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico

40. Mound Builders What did they do? Built huge mounds made of earth Who were they? Hunters and gatherers