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52 Cards in this Set
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What does Paleolithic mean?
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Old Stone
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When did Homo sapiens spaiens originate?
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120,000 years ago
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When and with what did speech develop?
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100,000 years ago
Homo erectus |
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What does BCE stand for?
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Before the Common Era
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What had Homo erectus accomplished 600,000 years ago?
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the species had spread across Asia, Europe and Africa
developed fire |
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When did people arive in the tip of South America?
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25,000 BCE
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When did the ice age end?
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14,000 BCE
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When did the Paleolithic Age end?
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12,000 BCE
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When was farming developed in the Middle East?
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10,000-8,000 BCE
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When and what animals were domesticated?
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9000 BCE
sheep, pgs, goats, cattle |
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When was silk weaving introduced in China?
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8000 BCE
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What is the development of agriculture termed as?
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the Neolithic revolution
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What system of survival preceeded agriculture?
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hunting and gathering
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What crops developed in Mesoamerica?
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maize
beans |
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What crops developed in the Andes?
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beans
potatoes |
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What crops developed in the Middle East?
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barley
beans wheat |
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What crops developed in West Africa?
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yams
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What crops developed in Southeast Asia?
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bananas
breadfruit rice yams |
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What era succeded the neolithic revolution
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the Bronze Age
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What were the main sources of early civilizations?
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Egypt
Mesopotamia the Indus River Basin China |
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What is "slash and burn agriculture"?
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1. burn off trees in an area
2. farm intensively for a few years 3. move on 4. Repeat |
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bands
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tribal herds with strong kinship ties
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Catal Huyuk:
What/When/Where |
What: an unusually large, advanced Neolithic village
When: 7000 BCE onward Where: southern Turkey |
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What is the accepted definition of "civilization"?
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societies with enough economic surplus to form divisions of labor and a social hierarchy involving significant inequalities
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What is cuneiform?
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writing based on wedge-like characters
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Where did cuneiform develop?
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the Middle East
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When did cuneiform develop?
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around 3500 BCE
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Who coined the word "barbarian"?
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the ancienct Greeks
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What were the main rivers in Mesopotamia?
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Euphrates River
Tigris River |
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Who developed the first known human alphabet?
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the Sumerians
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What are ziggurats
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massive towers devoted to patron gods
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What Neolithic society contained city-states?
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Sumerian
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What was the main benefit of warfare for the sumerians?
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It maintained a supply of slaves (prisoners of combat).
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How did the Sumerians use silver?
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coins, as a means of buying and selling
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Who did the Sumerians fall to?
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the Akkadians
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Who did the Akkadians fall to?
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the Babylonians
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What prince began the first code of law?
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Hammurabi
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What is a pharaoh?
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The ruler of the Egyptian civilization.
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Pyramids:
what/when/where |
What: tombs
When: 2700 BCE onward Where: Egypt |
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In what cardinal direction is Lower Egypt from Upper Egypt?
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North
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Where is Giza, Cairo and Memphis?
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Lower Egypt (just before the Nile Delta)
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What is Kush?
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a kingdom upriver from Egypt that interacted with and attempted to invade Egypt over the course of time
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Where was Harappa and Mohenjo Daro?
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along the Indus River
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Who is the mythic ancestor of the Chinese?
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P'an Ku
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Along what river did Chinese civilaztion begin?
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Huanghe (Yellow River)
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How did the Chinese writing system progress?
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1. knots on a rope
2. scratches on bone 3. ideographic symbols |
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About when did the Shang rule the Huanghe valley?
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1500 BCE
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What people's alphabet predecessed the Greek and Latin alphabets?
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Phoenicians
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What concept was pivotal in regard to Chinese political thinking and organization?
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Madate of Heaven
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What is monotheism?
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The belief in only one god
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What religion originated monotheism?
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Judaism
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Which of the River Valley civilizations grew in isolation?
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Huanghe
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