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Paleolithic age |
The old stone age ending in 12,000 b.c.e ;typified by use of crude stone tools and hunting and gathering for substance |
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Homo sapiens |
The humanoid speices that emerged as most successful at end of the Paleolithic period |
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Neolithic age |
The new stone age between 8,000 and 5,000 b.c.e.; period in which adaptation of sedentary agriculture occurred; domestication of plants and animals accomplish |
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Neolithic revolution |
The succession of technology innovations and changes in human organization that led to development of agriculture |
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Hunting and Gathering |
The original human economy, ultimately eplipsed by agriculture; groups hunt for meat and forage for grains, nuts,and berries |
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Bronze age |
From about 4,000 b.c.e.,when bronze tools were first OK introduce in middle East, to about 1,500 b.c.e,when iron began to replace it |
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Slash and burn agriculture |
A system of civilization typical of shifting cultivators;forest floors cleared by fire are then planned |
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Band |
A level of social organizations normally considering of 20 to 30 people; nomadic hunters and gatherers; labor divided on gender basis |
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Catal huyuk |
Early Urban culture based on sedentary agriculture located and modern Southern turkey what is larger in population than Jericho the greater degree of Social stratification |
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Civilization |
Societies distinguished by reliance unsanitary articulture ability to produce food surpluses an existence of nonfarming Elites as well as merchants and Manufacturing groups |
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Cuneiform |
A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge-stylist and clay tablets |
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Nomads |
Cattle and sheep herding societies normally found on fringes of civilization societies commonly referred to a barbarian by civilized societies |
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Mesopotamia |
Literally between the rivers the civilization that arose in alluvial plain of the tigris and Euphrates river valleys |
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Sumerians |
People who migrated into mesopotamia c. 4,000 b.c.e. created first civilization within region organized area into city-states |
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Zigguarts |
Message Towers usually associated with the mesopotimain in Temple complex |
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City-state |
A form of political organization typical of mesopotamain civilization is considered of agricultural Hinterlands ruled by Urban based King |
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Babylonian Empire |
Unified all of the mesopotamia c. 1800b.c.e.;collapsed due to foregien invasion c.1600b.b.c.e. |
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Hammurabi |
The most important ruler of Babylonian Empire responsible codification of law |
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Pharaoh |
Title of kings of ancient Egypt |
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Pyramids |
Monumental architecture typical of old kingdom Egypt; used as burial sites for pharaohs |
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Kush |
An African state that developed along the upper reaches of the Nile C.1000 B.C.E. conquered Egypt and ruled it for several years |
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Indus river valley |
River sources in the Himalayas to mouth in arbian sea; located of harappan civilization |
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Harappa |
Along with mohenjodaro,major urban complex of the harappan civilization; laid out on planned grid pattern |
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Mohenjo daro |
Along with harappa,major urban complex of the harappan civilization; laid out planned grid pattern |
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Yellow river |
Also known as the hunaghe;site of development of sedentary agriculture in China |
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Shang |
First Chinese dynasty for which archeological evidence exists; capital located in ordos bulge of the huanghe;flourished 1600 to 1046 b.c.e. |
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Oracles |
Shamans or priest in Chinese society who foretold the future through interpretation s if animals bones crakled by heat; inscription s on bones led to Chinese writing |
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Ideographs |
Pictographs characters grouped together to create new concepts; typical of Chinese writing |
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Phoenicians |
Seafaring civilization located on the shores of eastern Mediterranean; established colonies throughout the Mediterranean |
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Monotheism |
The exclusive worship of a single god;introduce by the Jews into western civilization |
