Reading Guide Chapter 2 Vocab

Question 1

Neolithic

Answer 1

“new stone age” the last division of the stone age, immediately preceding the development of metallurgy and corresponding to the ninth to fifth millennia BCE

Question 2

the fertile crescent

Answer 2

a crescent-shaped region between the tigris and euphrates rivers; mesopotamians lived there; good farming land

Question 3

Diffusion

Answer 3

the spread of ideas, objects, or traits from one culture to another

Question 4

ziggurats

Answer 4

a temple tower of the ancient mesopotamia, constructed of square or rectangular terraces of diminishing size, usually built of blue enamel bricks, the color of the sky

Question 5

Epic of Gilgamesh

Answer 5

an ancient story to which the moral is to live your life freely because u don’t know when ur going to die

Question 6

code of hammurabi

Answer 6

were laws of the city states that unified the region and set the precedent that govt controlled what occurred in society