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Paleolithic Era
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hunters & gatherers; limited to resources & environmental conditions;nomadic
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Neolithic Era
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Age of agriculture;people raised animals and plants to survive in one place.
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Nile River Valley - Egypt
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arid,dry climate - food
navigable river - political unity deserts - isolation stone - architecture |
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Tigres and Euphrates - Mesopotamia
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Tigres - flooding;disaster
many tributaries - scattered city-states - disunity no stone - clay structure |
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Indus River - India
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Flooding - fertile land
Himalaya Mts, - protection Monsoons - water supply |
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Mesopotamia
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Area between the Tigres and Euphretes Rivers; Referred to as fertile crescent;hub of civilization
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Sumerians
Southern Mesopotamia 3500-2300BC |
City-states;math(times table)wheeled vehicles;ziggurats;cuneiform (writing)schools
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Egyptians
Nile River Valley 3100-1200 BC |
Irrigation - to cultivate land;claendar;medicine;hieroplyphics;pyramid tombs;mummification
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Babylonians
Mesopotamia 1900-1600 BC |
Hammurabi's law code, unification of entire Mesopotamian region
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Hebrews, Jews, Isrealites
Palestine 2000 BC - 79AD |
Monotheism;Ten Commandments;Old Testament;
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