Gabriela Johnson

HUMAN INTERACTIONS WITH THE ENVIRONMENT

Paleolithic eraStone age. MigrationMoving from one place to another. Hunting Searching for food. GatheringCollecting food.

EARLY MAN

SurplusExtra supplies of food DomesticateTo tame plants or animals for human use. PlowA tool used to cut, lift, or turn over soil. GovernmentAn organized system of leaders and laws.

Plow

FARMERS AND CITY DWELLERS

ZigguartThe largest and tallest temple in every Sumerian city-state. CuneiformA writing system based on wedge-shaped symbols. TradeGiving up of one thing to get another. BronzeA yellowish-brown alloy of copper with up to one-third tin.

cuneiform

MESOPOTAMIA

the Nile riverThe worlds longest river. PapyrusA material prepared in ancient Egypt from the pithy stem of a water plant, used in sheets throughout the ancient Mediterranean world. After lifeLife after death. PyramidA structure that served as tombs for Egyptian ruler.

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EGYPT

FarmersA person who operates a farm or cultivates land.

MythA traditional legendary story. TradeThe act of process of buying, selling, or exchanging commodities. PeninsulaAn area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for an isthmus connecting it with the main land.

farmers

GREECE

ColosseumAn ancient amphitheater in Rome. RoadA long, narrow stretch with a smoothed or paved surface, made for traveling by motor vehicle, carriage, etc.. ConcreteFormed by coalescence of separate particles into a mass, united in a coagulated, condense, or solid mass or state. ForumThe market place or public square of an ancient Rome city, the center of judicial and business affairs.

Colosseum

ROME