ASB 222 Final: ASB Final Review Guide Part 1

• School: ASU
• Department: Anthropology (Social and Behavioral)
• Course: ASB 222
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Land between rivers , tigris and euphrates,, modern day iraq. Area of fertile soil and important rivers stretching in an arc from the nile to the tigris and euphrates. Period immediately following the ubaid period; based on use of later historical documents which trace early kingship to this period. Temple platform which is built to raise the temple above the level of the city"s structures. Hill or mound, a type of archaeological site in the form of an earthen mound that results from the accumulation and subsequent erosion of material deposited by long human occupation. Rapids, waterfalls, or other rocky areas in the nile. Upper egypt narrow strip of land that extends from the cataract section of upper egypt, between el-ayait and asyut is sometimes known as middle egypt. It refers to the fertile nile delta region, which stretches from the area between el-aiyat and zawyet dahshur, south of modern-day cairo, and the mediterranean sea.