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"Old Stone" Age (200,000-10,000 BCE) |
Paleolithic |
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"New Stone" Age (10,000-4,000 BCE) |
Neolithic |
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What was the significance of the Neolithic period? |
People learned how to produce their own food by raising crops and domesticating cattle. |
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When do scientists believe homo sapiens appeared? Homo sapien sapiens? And, what do the two terms mean? |
Homo sapiens or "wise human beings" appeared 200,000 to 100,000 years ago. Homo sapien sapiens or "wise, wise human beings" appeared 50,000 years ago. |
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What is the significance of homo sapien sapiens? |
They had much improved technologies, languages and cultures over those of the Homo sapiens.
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Which of the following did Paleolithic humans have? Cities, writing, religion, art? |
They had art and religion. |
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Were Paleolthic humans primarily hunter-gathers or farmers? |
They were hunter-gathers. |
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According to archaelogical evidence, when do the earliest small-walled settlements appear in the East? |
About 10,000-8,000 BCE |
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How did the Neolithic peoples living around the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers produce abundant food, despite infrequent rainfall and high temperatures? |
They developed an extensive system of irrigation.
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Where did the first civilization arise, and what might explain its appearance there? |
Sumer had cities, agriculture, irrigation, religion, social hierarchy, writing and war. |
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What is the definition of civilization? |
Society differentiated by levels of wealth and occupation. |
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In what order did the earliest Mesopotamian civilizations arise? |
Sumerians>Akkadians>Babylonians |
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What are city-states? |
An urban center excercising political and economical control over the countryside around it. |
