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52 Cards in this Set
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Front (Term) Paleolithic |
Back (Definition) Literally " old Stone Age " the term used to describe early homoscipien societies in the period before the development of agriculture |
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Front (Term) Clovis Culture |
Back (Definition) Earliest widespread and distinctive cutler of North America; Named for the Clovis point a particular kind of projective points |
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Front (Term) Gathering and Hunting people |
Back (Definition) People who live by collecting good rather than producing it. Recent scholars have turned to this term instead of the older " Hunter-Gather " in recognition that such societies depended more heavily on gathering then hunting |
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San or Jo |
A Paleolithic people still living on the northern fringe of the kalahari desert in souther Africa |
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Cahokia |
The dominant center of an important Mississippi valley mound building culture, located near present day St. Louis |
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Pastoral Societies |
A human society that relies on domesticated animals rather than plants as the main source of food ; pastoral nomads lead their animals to seasonal grazing grounds rather than setting permanently in a single location |
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Horticulture |
How based agricultural, typical of early agrarian societies |
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Catalhuyuk |
An important Neolithic site in modern turkey |
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Cheifdom |
A societal grouping governed by a chief who typically relies on generosity ritual status or charisma rather than force to win obedience from the people |
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Fertile Crescent |
Regions sometimes known as southwest Asia that includes the modern states of Iraq, Syria, Israel, Palestine and southern turkey ; the earliest home of agriculture |
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Hadza |
A people of Tanzania, almost the last surviving Paleolithic society |
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Human Revolution |
Termed used to describe the transition of humans from acting out of biological imperative to dependence on learned or invented ways of living |
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Jomon |
A settled Paleolithic culture of pre - historic Japan. Characterized by seaside villages and the creation of some of the worlds earliest pottery |
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Neanderthals |
Homisapiens neanderthalensis, a Europe variant homosapiens that died out about 25,000 years ago |
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Stateless Societies |
Village based agricultural societies, usually organized by kinship groups, that functioned without formal government apparatus |
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Ziggurat |
A Mesopotamian stepped purines unlike an Egyptian purines, a ziggurat was a six structure of baked brick. |
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Uruk |
The largest city in ancient Mesopotamia |
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Pharaoh |
A king of Egypt. The termite rally means " The Palace " and only came into use in the new kingdoms, but is generally employed in reference to all ancient Egyptian rules |
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Pyramid |
Monumental temple for an Egyptian pharaoh ; mostly built during the old kingdom |
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Hieroglyphs |
Ancient Egyptian writing system literally been" Scared carving " so named because the Greeks saw them prominently displayed in Egyptian temples |
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Nubia |
A civilization to the South of Egypt in the Nike valley, noted for development of an alphabetic writing system and a major iron working industry by 500 BCE |
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Teotihuacah |
Largest city of ore Colombian America , with a population between 100k - 200k; seemingly built to a plan in the valley of Mexico ; flourished between 300 and 600 CE |
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Quipu |
A series of knotted cords used for accounting and perhaps as a form of writing in the Norte Chico Civilization |
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Indus Valley |
Home of a major civilization that emerged in what is now Pakistan during the 3rd millennium BCE in the valleys of the Indus and Sawaswati rivers noted for the uniformity of its elaborately planned cities over a large territory |
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Minoan civilization |
An advanced civilization that developed on the island of Crete |
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Hittites |
An - Indo - European civilization established in Anatolia in the 18th century BCE |
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Phoenicians |
A civilization in the area of present day Lebanon creators of the first phonetic writing system |
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Persian Empire |
A major empire that expanded from the Iranian plateau to incorporate the Middle East from Egypt to India ; flourished from around 550 to 330 BCE |
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Hellenistic Era |
The period from 323 to 30 BCE in which Greek culture spread widely in Eurasia in the kingdoms riled by Alexander political successors |
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Patricians |
Wealthy, privileged Romans who gradually won a role in the roman society |
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Plebeians |
Poor, less privileged Romans who gradually won a role in roman politics |
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The three obediences |
In China Confucian thought, stating that a woman is permanently subordinate to the males in her life ; first her father, then her husband, and finally her son. |
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Caste System |
System of social organization in India that has evolved over millennia ; based on an original division of the populate into fro unmerited classes with the addition of thousand social distinctions |
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Greek + Roman Slavery |
Greek household service was the most common form of slavery, but in parts of the Roman state thousands of salves were employed under brutal confiscations in the mines on the grate plantations in beget case was slavery based on race , ethnicity, age, sex, ect |
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Batwa |
Forest dwelling people of central Africa who adopted some of the wags of their Bantu neighbors while retaining distinctive features of their own culture |
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Axum |
Classical - era kingdoms of east Africa ; in present day Eritrea & norther Ethiopia ; flourished from 100 to 600 CE |
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Meroe |
City in souther Nubia that was the center of Nubian civilization between 300 BCE and 100 CE |
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Niger Valley Civilization |
Distinctive city based civilization that flourished from about 300 BCE to 900 CE in the floodplain of the middle Niger and that included major cities like Jenne - Jeno |
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Chaco phenomenon |
Settlement & societal organization that occurred between 860- 1130 CE among the peoples of Chaco canyon in what is now North Western New Mexico |
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Chavin |
Andean town that was the center of a large Peruvian religious movement from around 900 to 200 BCE |
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Moche |
An important regional civilization of Peru, governed by warrior - priests ; flourished around 200 to 800 CE |
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Hope we'll culture and |
Named from its most important site this is the most elaborate & wide spread of the North American Mound building cultures |
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Mound Builders |
Members of any of a number of cultures that developed easy of the Mississippi River and that are distinguished by their large earthen mounds |
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Maya |
The major classical civilization of Mesoamerica ; flourished from 240 to 900 CE |
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Nazca |
A civilization of southern Peru ; famous for their gigantic and mysterious lines in the desert in the form of animals & other designs |
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Pueblos |
Great house of the ancestral pueblo people ; a large apartment style structure that could house hundreds of people |
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Malaysians |
Speaker of Austronesian languages from what is now Indonesia who became major traders in SE Asia and Madagascar |
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Ghana, Mu, Songhay |
Controlled gold production and est a key trade network in western & central Sudan between 509-1600 CE |
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American Web |
Network of trade that linked parts of ore Colombian Americans ; less intense & complete than the Eurasian trade networks |
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3rd Wave Civilization |
Emerged between 500-1500 CE & were typified by extensive trading networks |
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Swahili Civilization |
East African civilization that emerged in the 8th venture CE rom a blending on Bantu, Islamic & other Indian Ocean trade elements |
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Vikings |
Scandinavian raiders who had an impact on much of Western Europe in the late 18th to 11th centuries |