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Paleolithic Age
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Earliest period when stone tools were used, from about 1,000,000 to 10,000 B.C.E.
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Culture
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Living in a group, built by the group, and continues groups.
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Neolithic Revolution
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Began 10,000 years ago from HUNTER-GATHERER societies to settled communities. "New Stone"
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Civilization
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Human culture (Urbanism, Metallurgy, and Writing).
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Mesopotamia
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Present Iraq. Between Tigris and Euphrates.
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Bronze Age
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Name for 4000 to 1000 B.C.E. Made metal bronze for weapons and tools.
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Cuneiform
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Writing system "Sumerians" "Wedge shaped stylus, or pointed tool, to write on wet clay tablets that were then baked or dried (cuneus means "wedge" in Latin). Cut in stone
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