Prehistoric Vocabulary

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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