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43 Cards in this Set
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Archaeologist
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scientist who studies the lives of early people through examintaion of their remains
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Artifact
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object made by human being
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Historian
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person who studies how people lived in the past
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Technology
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tools and skills people use to meet their basic needs
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Cultural Diffusion
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Spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one person to another.
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River Valley Civilization
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were successful because of favorable farming conditions, large animal populations, and transportation
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Louis and Mary Leakey
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first archaeologists that found the oldest most complete skeleton
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Location
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tells us where a place is on the surface of the Earth
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Latitude
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Lines run East to West
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Longitude
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lines that run North to South
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Climate
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encompasses the statistics of temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, rainfall, atmospheric particle count and numerous other meteorological elements in a given region over long periods of time
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What are three examples of Primary Sources
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primary sources include letter, diary, diagram, newspaper, photograph, audio and video recordings
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What are two examples of secondary sources
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A magazine article or interview
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Paleolithic and Neolithic similarities
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Dependent on Natural Resources
Paleolithic: Moved with food supply. Neolithic: Water and good soil for crops. Government Paleolithic: Families (male ruled) evolutionary, from family to village to city. Neolithic: Chief with council. Economy Neolithic: Barter system. Religion Polytheistic - believed in life after death. Social Men hunted; women gathered / farmed. Technology Paleolithic: Stone tools Neolithic: Farming, baking and firing pottery, specialized tools, bronze tools and weapons |
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Paleolithiv and Neolithic Differnces
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One of the main differences between the palaeolithic and neolithic periods was in the main methods people used to acquire food. In the palaeolithic, anatomically modern humans and their ancestors were mainly nomadic hunter gatherers. By the neolithic people had developed farming, allowing them to live in settlements such as villages and towns. Diet also changed as a result of people eating more cereals and other farmed crops.
Compared to the neolithic, the palaeolithic people had a far less complex technology. They used basic stone, bone and antler tools and developments such as art and other forms of "higher culture" only occur in the later stages of the palaeolithic. Neolithic people mastered the use of many more types of raw material, notably clays to make pottery and the beginnings of metalworking. Exchange and trade networks were also comparatively more developed. |
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What is the Neolithic Revolution
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The Neolithic Revolution is the first agricultural revolution—the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture and settlement
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Signifigance of the NIle River
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Trade, Transprotation, irrigation
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Describe Egypts Geography
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North of Africa borders Meditaranean Sea, Gobi Desert
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Hieroglyphics
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Form of picture writing of the ancient egyptians
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Cuneiform
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wedge shaped writing of the ancient sumerian and other ancient peoples
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Pharoah
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title of the rules of ancient egypt
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Pyramid
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A massive monument of ancient Egypt having a rectangular base and four triangular faces culminating in a single apex, built over or around a crypt or tomb.
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Mummification
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practice of preserving the bodies of the dead
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Fertile Crescent
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Mesopotamia..begins in what is now southern Iraq where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers empty into the Persian Gulf. It extends north along with the rivers, turns westward in what was ancient Assyria, and then turns back south in what is modern Syria. The Fertile Crescent then extends down into southern Palestine; sometimes the Nile River region is included in the Fertile Crescent despite the fact that it and southern Palestine are separated by the distinctly un-fertile Sinai peninsula
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Ziggurat
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•a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
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Code of Hammurabi
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First set of laws
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Monotheistic
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Belief in one god
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Religion of the Hebrews
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monotheistic, bible,
Abraham was the first Hebrew. At that time, the area where he lived was full of mystery religions and various Pagan cults; they were polytheistic, and worshipped multiple deities. But when God spoke to Abraham, he made it clear that Abraham and his descendants were to worship ONLY him, the God of Israel. Thus the Jewish people and the Jewish religion were the first to advance the idea of 'ethical monotheism'. That is, adherence to worship of one God, and to the code of conduct he set out. |
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Indias Location
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It is located in South Asia....
just below the Himalayas |
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3 geographic regions of india
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Deccan Plateau well watered, nothern plains fertile regions, Coastal Plains, seperatef from the mountains
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Summer Monsoon
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wet,blows from southwest,
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Harappa & Mohenjo Daro
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layed out like on a coordinate grid. More modern then usual
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Aryan Caste System
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Brahmins- priests
Kshatriyas-warriors Vaisays- herders cant change class when your born into it |
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Moksha
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Reincarnation
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Atman
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essential self
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Siddhartha Gautama
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Buddha enlightened one
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Four Noble Truths
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teachings of buddha
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Eight Fold Path
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middle way between a life devoted to pleasure and one basd on harsh self-denial
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Ahisma
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nonviolene
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Karma
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refers to all the actions of a persons life that affect his or her fate in the next life
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Nirvana
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ultimate life
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Tripitaka
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Sacred texts
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Joint Family
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whole family shared a common dwelling
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