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Paleolithic
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What: Old Stone Age Where: Began East Africa and spread all over the Earth. When: 4,000,000-10,000 BCE Significance: The Era in which we developed from Hominins to Homo sapiens sapiens. |
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Neolithic
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What: New Stone Age Where: Mesopotamia, earliest village in Euphrates Valley. When: 11,500-1,500 BCE Significance: Began with polished stone tool, agriculture, and pottery. Developed first cities, cities to empires. Patriarchy. Unified law code. Military. Urbanization and social stratification. |
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Sumerians
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Who: Inhabitants of the "cradle of civilization". First empire people. What: Built Uruk; held to be the oldest city in the world. First Kings. Where: Lower Mesopotamia and Upper Egypt When: 5500-3500 BCE Significance: First large population centers, first kingdoms, development of Humanity. |
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Ziggurat
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What: A rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple. Where: Mesopotamia When: 5000 BCE Significance: Landowners gained control of land and built up the community temples. Landowner Priests built tombs for themselves. Development |
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Cuneiform
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What: denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems Where: Mesopotamia When: 3450 BCE Significance: Human Development. Measurement. Scholars. Accounting. Records. |
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"Epic of Gilgamesh"
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Who: Sumerians passed down the story orally before it was written down What: The earliest story written in any language about the king Gilgamesh and his equal, the wild Enkidu. Where: Mesopotamia When: 2700 BCE Significance: The Sumerians believed in gods who represented the elements. They believed even the perfect King could be corrupted. |
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Akkadians
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Who: The Akkadian Empire What: An ancient Semitic empire centered in the city of Akkad and its surrounding region, also called Akkad. Where: Mesopotamia When: 2300 BC, Bronze Age Significance: Sargon was the first major king and ruled the first dynasty to bring the warring states together. |
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Semitic
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What: The term used to refer to a family of languages. Where: Mesopotamia When: Significance: |
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Assyrians
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