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6767494Nomadsno language, fire, or stone tools. just wanted shelter and food. no farming or other skills.0
6767495Hunter-Gatherersmoved to follow food and climate.1
6767496Pastoralsdomesticated animals, little farming, male dominated.2
6767497Neolithic Revolutionpermanent. survival skills, ownership, specialized labor, animal labor, boats and carts, metallurgy. followed by the Bronze Age.3
6767498Mesopotamiabetween the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. part of the fertile crescent. unpredictable floods4
6767667Sumercuneiform, trade w/ wheel, calender, math based on 60, polytheistic, city-states, ziggurats, overthrown in 1700 BCE5
6767668Akkadcreated first law code in cuneiform. overthrew sumer.6
6767669Babylonoverthrew Akkad. king hammurabi's code. fell to the kassites.7
6767670kassitesoverthrew babylon8
6767671Hittitesused iron, had a super military9
6767672Assyriansadopted military stuff from Hitties. Big meanies. conquered the fertile crescent. capital at Nineveh. conquererd by Medes and Chaldeans.10
6767673Chaldeansoverthrew assyrians. rebuilt Babylon. fell to the Persians11
6767674Persian Empirebuilt roads: Great Roayl Roads (1600m from Perian Gulf to the Aegean Sea)12
6767733Lydiansinvented currency in trade rather than the barter system. spread on trade routes13
6767734Phoenicianshad naval city-states along the Medditereanean. Invented an alphabet w/ 22 letters. Greeks adopted it.14
6767765HebrewsJudaism. est Isreal in Palestine. got punked n conquered but maintained identity.15

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