Tuesday, January 27, 2015

review for quiz

Western Civilization quiz one
Prehistory- a period of time before written records
Paleolithic Age- (Old Stone Age)
Neolithic Age- (New Stone Age) advanced tool making and agriculture
Agriculture Revolution- also known as Neolithic Revolution, more permanent settlements, beginning in Southwestern Asia.
Cuneiform- Sumerians invented the earliest form of writing known as cuneiform
Ziggurat- a Sumerian temple built on top of a mountain

Indo-Europeans- people from the grasslands of the Russian steepe who introduced the horse to the near east.

locate.....Asia Minor, Fertile Crescent, Tigris river, Euphrates river, Mediterranean Sea, and Sumer. 

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