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9 Cards in this Set
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Early Human Migrations |
The Palaeolithic Era/East Africa |
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Slash and Burn |
expansions of people into new regions as the fertility of previous sites declined |
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Jericho and Catal Huyuk |
Earliest settlement sites |
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Homo sapiens |
consciously thinking men |
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Australopithecines |
earliest hominids in east Africa |
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Sumer |
world's earliest city |
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Primary functions of the first city states |
tax collection, building palaces, ziggurats (temples), irrigation systems, and defensive walls |
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Lex talionis |
Legal code made by king Hammurabi (punishment tied closely by offenses) |
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Assyrian Empire |
used weapons, chariots, and professional soldiers to overpower neighboring cities |
