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| 6686518974 | climate | climate has been a major factor in determining where people started. People settled in areas that had climates that would accomadate agriculture and livestock | 0 | |
| 6686518975 | Paleolithic Age | about 12,000 BC -during this time people were nomadic | 1 | |
| 6686518976 | Neolithic Age | refers to age from about 12,000 BC to 8000 BC. During this time, people settled in communities and civilizations began to emerge | 2 | |
| 6686518977 | River Valley Civilizations | refers to about 3500 to 1500 BC (Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus Valley, Shang China, and Meso and South America) | 3 | |
| 6686518978 | Classical Civilizations | refers to about 1000 BC to 600 CE/major civilization that emerged were Zhou and Han China, Greece and Rome, and the Gupta Empire | 4 | |
| 6686518979 | All early River-Valley Civilizations shared some common characteristics: | -complex irrigation systems -legal codes -money -art and written literature -scientific knowledge, numbering systems, and calendars -intensification of social inequality | 5 | |
| 6686518980 | common features of classical civilizations | -patriarchal family structures -agricultural-based economies -complex governments -expanding trade base | 6 | |
| 6686518981 | Mesopotamia Culture(developed by 3500 BCE) | -cuneiform -extensive trade with Egypt and the Indus Valley -Bronze tools -advanced astronomy -Pessimistic view of world -flooding of the rivers -Polytheism: gods powerful and often cruel -Kings powerful, but not divine | 7 | |
| 6686518982 | Mesopotamia Political Organization | -city states and warrior kings -Hammurabis code -competition among city states as well as frequent invasions led to less political stability than Egypt | 8 | |
| 6686606883 | Mesopotamia Social Structure | -Job Specialization: farmers, metallurgist, merchants, craftsmen, political administrators, priests; -social classes -Marriage contracts, veils for women; women of upper class less equal than lower class counterparts | 9 | |
| 6686606884 | Egypt (developed by 3000 BCE) CULTURE | -concerned w/ decorative arts, shipbuilding, some medical knowledge -less advanced in math and astronomy than Mesopotamians -Less extensive trade(especially in earlier eras) -Polytheism (with pharaoh as god) -Optimistic view of life -Strong belief in afterlife -Book of Dead -Hieroglyphics | 10 | |
| 6686606885 | Egypt Political Organization | -Divine Kingship-the pharaoh;highly centralized, authoritarian government -Generally stable gov throughout the 3 kingdoms -Extensive bureaucracy; the pharaohs power channeled through regional governors | 11 | |
| 6686606886 | Egypt Social Structure | -Smaller Nobility than Mesopotamia; fewer merchants -Some social nobility through the bureaucracy -Priests have high status(only ones who understand hieroglyphic written language) -Women probably has higher status in Mesopotamia ***-FEMALE PHARAOH: Hatshepsut -Influential wife of pharaoh: Nefertiti | 12 | |
| 6686661692 | Indus Valley*** | 13 | ||
| 6686661693 | Agricultural societies- Cultivate crops (8000 BCE) | *Technology developed in this time: -domestication of plants and animals -iron tools -writing systems -constant development *Main geographic locations: -river valleys in Mesopotamia, Nile River Valley, India, China, Mesoamerica, Andes | 14 | |
| 6686661694 | Pastoral societies-domesticated animals (8,000 BCE) | domestication of horses and camels geographic locations: steppes, grasslands, deserts, mountain ranges | 15 | |
| 6686661695 | Foraging societies- hunting and gathering (35,000 BCE) | baskets for gathering and storing and hunting tools geographic locations: everywhere | 16 | |
| 6686697894 | The Sil**** | 17 | ||
| 6687014300 | Polytheism | belief in a number of deities that can be anthromorphic or related to the non-human world *major areas: everywhere | 18 | |
| 6687014301 | Confucianism | -five relationships -mandate of heaven major areas: east asia | 19 | |
| 6687014302 | Daoism | Yin-Yang, Dualism in Nature, People part of the balance in Nature major areas: East Asia | 20 | |
| 6687014303 | Hellenism | -Greek philosophy, trade and common culture throughout Mediterranean -science and technology developments at Alexandria--Library major areas: Mediterranean | 21 | |
| 6687014304 | Hinduism | -caste system -multiple expressions of deities -emphasis on ritual prayer -sacred texts major areas: South and Southeast Asia | 22 | |
| 6687014305 | Buddhism | -Four Noble Truths -Eight-Fold Path major areas: South Asia, Central Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia | 23 | |
| 6687014306 | Judaism | -Monotheistic -emphasis on daily prayer and sacred text->TORAH major areas: Mediterranean world | 24 | |
| 6687014307 | Christianity | -monotheistic -Jesus Christ as savior -Gospels, emphasis on saints major areas: Mediterranean world and then expansion into Latin West, areas controlled by Byzantines, Ethiopia, India | 25 | |
| 6687014308 | Islam | -monotheistic -Mohammad as prophet -Qu'ran, Sufi emphasis on saints -Sunni/Shia spilt major areas: Arabian Peninsula, Mediterranean world then expansion into Islamic Spain, Persia, India, North Africa, Sudanic Africa | 26 |
