Paleolithic people

Paleolithic People

• Lived during what time period?

Ice Age

Paleolithic People

• How did they survive?

Paleolithic People

• By using fire

Sumerians

Sumerians

Sumerians

What did they believe?

Sumerians believed in

• Many Gods

What did the Sumerians accomplish?

Sumerians

• Built grand temples

Sumerians

• Developed a writing system

Sumerians

• Built cities

Sumerians

• Formed governments ruled by Kings

Name some of the Sumerian inventions

sailboat

Plow

Wheel

Sumerian Inventions

Sailboat plow wheel

Sumerian Scribes

• Learned to write• Held high positions

Hammurabi

• Who was he?• A Babylonian king• What is he know for?• Wrote a code of law

called the Code of Hammurabi

King Solomon

• Who was he?• King of the Israelites• What did he do?• Heavily tax the people

to pay for his great buildings

Hernan Cortes

• Spanish Soldier who• Conquered the

Aztecs by using• Guns, horses, and an

epidemic (a disease that spreads)

Pachacuti

• Incan king• What type of

government did he create?

• a strong central government

Ice Age

• How would you describe it?

Ice Age

• A period of extreme cold when great sheets of ice covered the earth

Neolithic Age

• What is another name for it?

• New Stone Age

• What marked its beginning?

Neolithic Age

• People started farming

Tigris River/Euphrates River

• Why do we call it the cradle of civilization?

• Believed to be the location of the first known cities

Tigris & Euphrates Rivers

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

Mesopotamia

• What does it mean?

• The land between two rivers.

Book of the Dead

• What was it?• Collection of spells

and prayers• Why was it studied?• Studied by Egyptians

to obtain life after death

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

Torah

• What is it?• The Hebrew Holy

Book

Mayan Civilization

• Where was in located?

• In a dense forest• Describe the people?• Warlike; warriors• Why did it decline?• Conquered by the

Spanish explorers

Native Americans

• What was the major cause of death for Native Americans?

• Measles and

• Smallpox

Mound Builders

Mound Builders

• Where were they located?

• Between the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico

Mound Builders

• What did they do?• Built huge mounds

made of earth• Who were they?• Hunters and

gatherers