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17 Cards in this Set
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old stone age (paleolithic, archaeology) |
-ended 8000 BC -tool making pottery -fire -language -nomadic -hunting & gathering -clothes -religon -more gender equality -art -boats -dispersion over earth |
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new stone age (neolithic, agricultural revolution) |
-8000 BC- 3500 BC -more sophisticated tools -settled villages -farming -domesticated animals -larger groups -less gender equality -end of mega- fauna -more likely for disease -irrigation -conflict with nomads -happened 1st in south west asia |
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judaism |
-abraham & sarah 2000 BC -covenant made by God that they would become nation of isreal -isreal heads to egypt as slaves -1446 moses leads them out -king david 1000 BC & his son solomon wrote many of the worship litature -prophets called isreal to repent & annouced future events |
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civilization |
cities & writing
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archaeology |
dig up stuff to find facts about life in past |
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theocracy |
religous goverment |
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historian |
tend to work with written source |
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dynasty |
whole family |
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monarchy |
one ruler |
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polytheism |
many gods |
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difusion |
spreading of ideas & cultures |
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patriarchy |
men are greater than women |
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river valley civilizations |
-began 3000 BC -formally called bronze age -nile, indus, tigris- euphrates -8 characteristics make civilization: citeis, writing, more complex religon, more organized goverment, public works, arts and archetecture, social classes, job specialization |
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mesopotamia |
-earliest river vally civ. -tigris-euphrates -south asia, middle east, fertil crescent -sumer, assyria -hammurabi -city states -more open to invasion -more trade -cuneiform: 1st form of writing -negative religon -ziggurats -gilgamesh |
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egypt |
-nile river -less slavery -at least 1 female pharaoh Hatshepsut -more centralized -some trade, somewhat isolated -more optimistic religon -book of the dead -pyrimids, mummies -hieroglyphics
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south asia |
part 1 -indus -100s of well planned water systems -un translated language -cotton cloth, sculpture part 2 -1500 1st civ gone, aryan culture appeared - warriors, cattle hearders -proto-hinduisim: vedas, brahmin, priests, caste system, karma, recarnation
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east asia |
yellow river -chang dynasty -silk, calligraphy -oracle bone divination, ancestor veneration: honor -rice, wheat -proto dauoism: harmony, balence, ying yang, go with the flow -dao the way |
