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31 Cards in this Set
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Period of time 10 years |
Decade |
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Period of time 100 years
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Century
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Period of 1,000 years |
Millennium |
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The first era |
Prehistory |
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A large division of time |
Era |
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epoch |
a particular period of time marked by distinctive features, events
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reliable |
trustworthy |
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Firsthand evidence of an event in history |
Primary sources Examples: Eye witness accounts/Diaries/Journal/Artifacts/Cuneiform translation |
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Document or written work created after an event |
Secondary sources Examples: Biography/Textbook/Modern maps |
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A.D. C.E. |
Anno Domini/Year of our Lord Common Era |
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B.C. B.C.E. |
Before Christ Before Common Era |
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Line of latitude that measures 0 degrees |
Equator |
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Line of longitude that measures 0 degrees |
Prime Meridian |
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Imaginary lines that circle the Earth parallel to the Equator |
Lines of latitude |
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Imaginary lines that circle the Earth from pole to pole
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Lines of longitude |
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Surplus |
extra food grown during Neolithic Era adds to population growth |
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Irrigation |
man made watering crops |
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Systematic agriculture |
Neolithic period farming Created food surplus/ population growth Specialized workers evolved |
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Metallurgy: the use of stronger metals |
Created more tools and weapons |
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Agricultural Revolution |
Change to farming Creates a food surplus which creates larger population |
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Similarity of Paleolithic and Neolithic Era |
hunting for meat use fire make tools |
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Paleolithic Era |
Nomads searching for food Fire Spoken Language Flint Ax |
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Neolithic Era |
Settled in large societies, less nomads Systematic Agriculture Farming Population Growth Specialization Bronze |
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Bronze |
metal mixing tin and copper |
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Belief in many gods |
polytheism |
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Temples built to honor the many gods |
Ziggurats |
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Early form of writing in clay tablets with wedge shaped marks representing words and numbers |
Cuneiform
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One of the first pieces of literature in the form of a long poem |
The Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Strict laws written in cuneiform to provide fairness and justice |
Hammurabi's Code |
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Why were scribes sop important |
Only people in Mesopotamia that could write down their history and literature in cuneiform |
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Achievements of Mesopotamia |
Bronze, wheel, abacus, shipbuilding, mathematics, cuneiform, calendar, irrigation |
