Human species began to emerge in Southwestern Africa 200,000 years ago.
Why did the period known as "prehistory" end?
Ended around 3200 BC
What made the rise of civilization possible?
Wandering nomads drove herds of domesticated animals in many areas, especially to the south of Sumer in Arabia
Name some early technological innovations.
Wheel and plow
How did hunter/gatherers live?
Hunt for food, women would take care of children and store food
Who was King Hummurabi, and why was he important?
He created a series of laws known as "Hummurabi's Code"- laws that included "an eye for an eye" and regulations of marriage, divorce, and punishments for all sorts of crimes.
prehistory- human history, in the period before record events
Paleolithic Age- second part of the Stone Age beginning about 75,000 to 500,000 years BC
Neolithic Age- "New Stone Age" a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 10,200 BC
Agricultural Revolution- a period of transition from the pre-agricultural period characterized by a Paleolithic diet
cuneiform- earliest system of writing
ziggurat- a Sumerian temple built on top of a "mountain" of earth
Indo-Europeans- people from the grasslands of the Russian steppe who introduced the horse the the Near East
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