Chapter 2 - First Civilization

Wheat and barley

Wheat and barley

possibly imported from Mesopotamia, were used in its agriculture, as were gourds, watermelon, domesticated donkeys, and cattle.

global phenomenon

Civilization, like agriculture, was a(n) ________, manifesting itself in seven key areas around the world over several millennia after 3500 b.c.e.

Sumer

________ was divided into a dozen or more distinct and autonomous city- states.

Nile Valley

Nubia, in the ________ to the south of Egypt, not only traded with its more powerful neighbor but was also subject to Egyptian military intervention and political control.

Mesopotamian culture

________, located in the southern Tigris- Euphrates region

Epic of Gilgamesh

an important example of early recorded storytelling for the first thousand years (3200–2350 b.c.e.)