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Archaeology
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Study of past human life and culture by recovery of remaining material evidence
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Artifact
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Radiocarbon Dating
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Determine the age of an artifact
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Anthropology
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The study of origin of the origin the behavior and the physical social and cultural development of humans
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Development of humans
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BC can also stand for
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BCE
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AD can also stand for
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CE
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Who was Mary Leakey
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A famous anthropologist that concluded that human life began in Eastern Africa in the Great Rift Valley
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Neolithic Revolution
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When people began to farm and create permanent settlements
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Mesopotamia
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Earliest known human civilization located at the meeting of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
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Silt
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Made soil unusually fertile and good for farming
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Sargon I
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A powerful Akkadian ruler who built the first Empire when he conquered the city states of Mesopotamia
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Sumerians
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Developed an early civilization in Mesopotamia
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Babylonians
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A rose around 1800 BC, Hammurabi was an important king of Babylon he conquered Akkadians and Sumerians
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The Code of Hammurabi
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The first written law code, this code provide harsh punishments it also treated people differently based on social class
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The Nile River
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·The Nile flows northward
·The Nile floods annually ·Flooding from the Nile provides fertile soil for farming |
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Agricultural surplus
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When people farm successfully and have more food than they need
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Specialization
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Occurs when people in society perform and different jobs. Surplus makes specialization possible
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Characteristics of a civilization
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·Agriculture
·agricultural surplus ·division of labor or specialization ·advanced technical skills ·a form of government ·cities ·a calendar |
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