Chapter 2 - First Civilization

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.)