From Human Prehistory to the Early Civilizations
Terms : Hide Images
| 196727895 | Neolithic Revolution | This social revolution was also known as the New Stone Age where people changed from hunting and gathering food to domesticating animals and cultivating land as farmers. | 1 | |
| 196727896 | 4 River Valley Civilizations | Mesopotamia (Tigris and Euphrates), India (Indus and Ganges), China (Yellow and Yangtze), Egypt (Nile) | 2 | |
| 196727897 | What makes a civilization? | economy, surplus of food, language, religion, government, arts | 3 | |
| 196727898 | Catal Huyuk | founded in present-day Turkey in 7000 B.C.E. | 4 | |
| 196727899 | cuneiform | 1st form of writing developed by Sumerians (Mesopotamia), used to keep records, taxes, and make contracts. | 5 | |
| 196727900 | hieroglyphics | Egyptian writing | 6 | |
| 196727901 | Phoenicans | developed 22 character alphabet, had the colony of Carthage in the Mediterranean Sea and fought Punic Wars with Rome | 7 | |
| 196727902 | ziggurats | used by Mesopotamians for trade, religion, shrines (tigris-euphrates) | 8 | |
| 196727903 | ethnocentrism | belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group | 9 | |
| 196727904 | Egyptian-Nile civilization | Nile was source of water, polytheism, developed calendar, irrigation, geometry, 24-hour day, pharoahs, pyramids, hieroglyphics | 10 | |
| 196727905 | Indus River civilization | Mohenjo Daro Harrapa- had plumbing, sanitation, was built on grid | 11 | |
| 196727906 | Tigris-Euphrates civilization | first civilization, called Mesopotamia, invaded by Sumerians, had governments, ziggurats, cuneiform | 12 | |
| 196727907 | Huanghe civilization | unpredictable flooding because of mountain sources, most isolated from other cultures | 13 | |
| 196727908 | polytheistic | many gods | 14 | |
| 196727909 | monotheistic | God. Monotheism is omniscient, all-knowing, abstract. creates morality in worshipers. | 15 | |
| 196727910 | Judaism | first monotheistic religion | 16 | |
| 196727911 | Hunter-gathering society | adapted to surroundings, gathered food, domesticated animals for food, supported less people than agricultural based, less permanent, word-of-mouth | 17 | |
| 196727912 | origins of civilization | 3500 B.C.E. | 18 | |
| 196727913 | agricultural society | more permanent, irrigation systems, defense systems, domesticated animals for agriculture | 19 | |
| 196727914 | order of civilizations | 1 tigris euphrates (mesopotamia) 2 egypt (nile) 3 indus river | 20 |
