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36 Cards in this Set
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Culture |
A groups knowledge, beliefs, values, and customs. |
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Artifacts |
Objects that people in the past made or used, such as coins, pottery, and tools. |
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Hominid |
An early humanlike creature that is believed to be the ancestor of humans. |
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Paleolithic Era |
Also know as the "Old Stone Age"; a prehistoric period that lasted from about 2.5 million years ago 8,5000 BC. |
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Nomads |
People who move from place to place in search of food and water. |
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Hunter-Gatherers |
People who hunt animals and gather wild plants to provide for their needs. |
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Neolithic Era |
The "New Stone Age"; the time period after the paleolithic Era, marked by the use of tools. |
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Neolithic Revolution |
A period in human history marked by the introduction of Agriculture and a shift from food gathering to food production. |
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Domesticiation |
Taming animals and adapting crops for human use. |
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Pastoralists |
Nomads who kept herds of livestock on which they depended for most of their food. |
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Bronze Age |
(c. 3000 BC) The period after the "Stone Age", when people began to make items out of bronze. |
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Surplus |
Excess |
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Division of Labor |
When certain people do a specific task or type of work. |
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Traditional Economy |
An economic system in which economic decisions are made based on customs, beliefs, religion, and habits. |
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Civilization |
A complex, organized society that has advanced cities, a government, religion, record keeping and writing, job specialization, social classes, and arts and architecture. |
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Artisans |
Skilled craftspeople who make goods, such as pottery or baskets, by hand. |
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Cultural Diffusion |
The spreading of culture fromone society to another. |
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Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia |
A region of rich farmland that curves from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf centered on the area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. |
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Ziggurat |
A Summerian temple made of sun-dried brick that was dedicated to the chief of god or goddess or a particular city-state. |
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City-State |
A political unit that includes a town or a city and the surrounding land controlled by it. |
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Polytheism |
The belief in many gods. |
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Dynasty |
A family of rulers whose right to rule is hereditary. |
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Cuneiform |
Summerian Writing. |
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Indo-Europeans |
A group of semi-nomadic people who migrated from southern Russia to the India subcontinent around 1700 BC. |
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Judaism |
A monotheistic religion originating with the Israelites, tracing its orgins to Abraham, and having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied cheifly in the Hebrew Scriptures and the Talmud. |
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Torah |
The first fivew books of the Hebrew Bible; the most sacred texts of the Jewish Faith. |
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Diaspora |
The dispersal of the jews from their homeland in Judah, which began following the desruction of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem in 586 b.C.
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Monotheism |
The belief in one god. |
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Satrap |
Governors of ancient Persia. |
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Dualism |
The belief that the world is controlled by two opposing forces, good and evil. |
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Pharaoh |
Ruler of ancient Egypt. |
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Bureaucracy |
A highly structured organization, often governmental , managed by officials. |
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Mummification |
The process of perserving the body with chemicals after death. |
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Hieroglyphics |
A form of ancient writing in which picture symbols represent sounds. |
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Papyrus |
A paper-like material made by ancient Egyptians from the stem of the reedy papyrus plant, which grows in the Nile river delta. |
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Rosetta Stone |
A granite stone found in 1799 that bears an inscription in hieroglyphics, demotic characters, and Greek; gave the first clue to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics. |
