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14 Cards in this Set
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Where was the origin of modern humans?
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East Central Africa
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The ancestor of modern humans was?
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Astrolo Pithicus
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Capabilities of Homo Erectus?
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Was bipedal, could speak, use fire, used cooperative operations
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Cave Murals
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25,000 years old. Pictures of sympathetic magic
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The effects of the end of the last ice age
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Animals moved North which led to a decline in food supply, which created alot of food production
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The origin of food production
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Created villages/humanity. First food storage
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The emergence of the village
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Because animals moved North and humans grew and stored food which led to a village
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Causes of early wars
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Inequality. Some have more than others. Nomads came after food supplies
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The invention of writing
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Wrote on tablets or blocks of clay. Was called cuneiform system. 3000 BC writing reached full development
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Early Sumerian Government
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Invented cities-Had a "city state" South=Sumerian. Middle=Akkad. North=Assyria
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Hammurabi
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Made a code of laws that included retaliation
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Character of the Assyrians
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Conquered most of Mesopotamia. Very big on war. Had trouble paying their military
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The chronology of ancient Mesopotamia (people who dominated)
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Sumarians-Akkadians-Old Babylonians-Kassites-Assyrians-New Babylonians
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New Babylonian astrology
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Created idea of celebrating New Years. They kept accurate records of astrology that were continued later by the Greeks and Romans
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