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16 Cards in this Set
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When did Paleolithic Age occur and what were its characteristics?
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2,000,000 years–c. 10,000 B.C. "old stone age"
Hunter-gatherers nomadic made simple tools usage of fire developed oral language |
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What was the most important characteristic of the Paleolithic age?
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Nomadic
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Where were the first river valleys?
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Mesopotamia - Euphrates & Tigris
Egypt - Nile Indus Valley - Indus River China - Hueng He |
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Which of the river valleys was first and its ruler?
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Mesopotamia - Euphrates & Tigris
Sargon the Great |
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What type of religion was the early civilizations with the exception of one and
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Polytheistic
Hebrews were Monotheistic |
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What assisted in creating an agricultural surplus?
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Irrigation systems, plows, metal tools
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Who was the leader of Judaism and what were the characteristics? List
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Abraham
Book of Torah, Monotheistic, Moses led Jews out of Egypt, Scattering of Jews (Diaspora) |
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Where did the Neolithic Revolution occur?
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Jericho (Fertile Crescent)
Çatalhöyük (Anatolia) Aleppo (Fertile Crescent) Stonehenge (England) |
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Where did Homo Sapiens migrate to?
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Started East Africa, then to Eurasia, Australia, and Americas
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What were characteristics of humans before the advent of civilizations?
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Nomadic
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The Phoenicians were responsible for giving us what?
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Purple Dye, ship, alphabet
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What are theocracy governments and who had them?
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Theocracy (a leader who is also the priest)
most of the first civilizations had them |
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What was the Code of Hammurabi, who had it and why was it important?
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laws carved in stone in Babylon,
told us about everyday life, women, slaves and foreigners |
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Agriculture led to increased need for labor which resulted in civilizations doing
what? |
getting slaves
debt, prisoners of war |
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What were similarities of the Nile River Valley, Mesopotamia, and Huang He
civilizations? |
Agricultural, Fertile land
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All ancient river valley civilizations had what kind of social hierarchy?
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Patriarchal
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