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| 2832725621 | Human Life in the Era of Hunters and Gatherers | Hunting-and-gathering economies dominated human history until the 9000 B.C.E. These economies helped propel migration over most of the lands of the earth | 0 | |
| 2832741478 | Human life before agriculture | As human societies spread geographically over the earth the Hunter-gatherer economy benefited with improved tool use. | 1 | |
| 2832748591 | Late Paleolithic Developments | A variety of human typed developed in the paleolithic time period but these were killed off homo sapiens 240000 years ago. Humans today are descendants of this group. all through this time africa into asia europe and finally north american | 2 | |
| 2832770586 | The Neolithic Revolution | is the term given to the development of agricultural societies. this revolution in economic. political. and social society organization began in the middle east as early as 10,000 B.C.E and gradually spread to other centers including parts of India,north africa and europe. with this humans were able to settle permanently | 3 | |
| 2832797022 | Civilization | 6000-3500 B.C.E The word "civilization" comes from the latin "city" form states,writing, cites, and monuments all characterize civilizations. Civilizations also exhibit elaborate trading patterns and extensive political territories. The first civilizations were established the river valley so called because they all developed along side major rivers to secure and adequate water supply | 4 | |
| 2832822622 | Tigris-Euphrates civilization | about 3500 B.C.E This Civilization originated in the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates in part of the middle east called Mesopotamia it was one of the few civilizations that started from scratch with no examples form any place these accomplishments happened because of the sumericans the most influential people in the Tigris-Euphrates region | 5 | |
| 2832842262 | Egyptian Civilizations | Egyptian civilizations emerged in northern Africa along the Nile river by 3000 B.C.E it benefited from trade and influences from Mesopotamia but also distinct social structures and cultural expressions unlike Mesopotamia civilization. Egyptian civilization featured very durable and centralized institutions mathematical achievements and impressive architectural structures also characterized Egyptian civilization form 2700 B.C.E onward | 6 | |
| 2832874795 | Indian and Chinese River Valley Civilizations | A prosperous urban civilzations emerged along the indus river by 2500 B.C.E supporting serveral large cities such as harappa. Indus River peoples had trading contacts with mesopotamia but they development a distinctive alphabet and artistic forms. invasions bu the indo- europeans resulted in such complete destruction of this culture civilization along the huanghe (yellow) river in china developed in considerable isolation in addition to th existense of and orginated advanced technology and elaborated intellectual life by about 2000 B.C.E there was a break between the Chinese river valley society.. | 7 | |
| 2832915194 | The heritage of the River Valley Civilizations | Basic achievements like the wheel. alphabets, mathematics, and divisions of time are vital legacies of the early civilizations. Mesopotamian art and Egyptian architecture influenced Greeks, subsequently the Romans who both passes of much heritage | 8 | |
| 2833072487 | in depth: The idea of civilization in the world historical perspective | the belief that there was are fundamental differences between the "civilized" and the "barbarians" is an old widespread one used by the Chinese, american Indians ancient Greeks and modern western Europeans to name just a few. later attempted to define series of stages in human development that ranged "advanced" by the 19th century racial qualities were quantified as qualifiers for position alone the hierarchy of civilization in the 20th century much of that intellectual baggage was eventually discarded | 9 | |
| 2833107334 | he First Civilizations | The first Civilization established a pattern of division among the worlds people after homo sapiens sapiens spread to almost every corner of the world then had relatively little contact with each other separate languages and cultures developed but by 1000 B.C.E the Phoenicians traded with Britain and Chinese silk was sold in Egypt overall foure distinct centers of civilizations developed the middle east india, china and egypt each were important with trading writing cities | 10 | |
| 2833134519 | Global connections: the early civilizations and the world | the scope and legacy of the first civilizations are unique to geography and other factors. Mesopotamia was flat with few natural barriers to recurrent invasions. Thus the middle east had an active role as an agent for wider connections with other cultures | 11 | |
| 2833145696 | Paleolithic or Old stone age | Most of the 2 million plus years during which our species has existed throughout this long time span which runs about 14,000 years ago during this time human species development into homo erectus and later homo sapiens sapiens Greatest achievement was spreading human species all over the earth shpaed rocks and sticks for hunting and warfare | 12 | |
| 2833159360 | Mesolithic or middle stone age | this term designates a span of several thousands years from about 12,000 to 8000 B.C.E during which human ability to fashion some took and other implements improved greatly The Mesolithic peoples ability to domestictrate more animals led to an increase in food supply and a subsequent in population growth | 13 | |
| 2833173964 | Neolithic Revolution | The neolithic revolution is the term for the invention of agriculture this revolution in economic production began in the middle east as early as 10,000 B.C.E and gradually spread to other centers including india africa europe with agriculture humans began to settle more permanently in one spot and specialize in more religious economic political functions | 14 | |
| 2833188113 | Prehistoric | Prehistoric is a term used for human patterns before the invention of writing allowed for the creation of the kinds of records with which historians prefer to study the past this huge span of time includes Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic | 15 | |
| 2833198785 | Metalworking | by about 3000 B.C.E metalworking had become common in the middle east like agriculture knowledge of metals gradually fanned out to other parts of asia and to africa and europe Metal working was extremely useful to agricultural and herding societies it allowed creation for more efficient farming tools and better weaponry | 16 | |
| 2833210185 | Catal Huyuk | catal huyuk was a Neolithic village located in souther turkey it has been elborately studied by archaeologist and has produced substantial historical data on the political economic and cultural dynamics of the neolithic period | 17 | |
| 2833219832 | river valley civilizations | the first civilizations all sprang up alongside of the banks of major rivers in order to irrigate their agricultural fields the first river valley civilizations began in the middle east flourished for many centuries. they created a basic set of tools, intellectual concepts such as writing and mathematics and political forms that world persist and spread to parts andd europe asia and Africa additional most of the river valley civilizations were decline by 1000 B.C.E | 18 | |
| 2833239190 | Sumerians | the sumerians were the most influential people of the tigris-euphrates region by about 3500 B.C.E the Sumerians had developed a cuneiform alphabet the first known human writing also developed astronomical sciences, intense religious beliefs and tightly organized city-states they increases the regions agricultural by learning about fertilizers and adopting silver to conduct earl form of commercial exchange eventually they fell to the akkadians who continued the Sumerians cultural | 19 | |
| 2836632739 | the shang dynasty | the shang ruled over the huanghe river valley by about 1500 B.C.E these rulers are noted for constructing substantial tombs and palaces the Zhou took over the river from the shang around 1000 B.C.E ruling a loose coalition of regional lords | 20 | |
| 2836642400 | Jews | they were the most influential of the smaller middle eastern groups that gave the world the first clearly developed monotheistic religion they settled near the Mediterranean around 1200 B.C.E but never able to from a strong political or military tradition jewish monotheism has sustained a distinctive Jewish culture to our day both developed Christianity and Islam as major world religious | 21 | |
| 2836668789 | Neolithic age | time period when people used polished stone artifacts and were farmers | 22 | |
| 2836671537 | Bands | Social organization used by hunters-gatherer societies with associations of families not exceeding 25 to 60 people | 23 | |
| 2836679212 | Bronze age | subdivision of prehistory based technological advancement in which bronze metalwork was development in the middle east | 24 | |
| 2836686210 | Slash and burn agriculture | system of agriculture that allows farmers to grows grain in places it does not naturally grow it involves cutting the forestation of an area which is burned for the purposes of using the ashes as fertilizer fir the deforested area | 25 | |
| 2836693578 | Nomands | people with no permanent home but who roam form place to place searching for pasture lands | 26 | |
| 2836696818 | Babylonians | One of the amorite kingdoms in mesopotamia whihc development an empire centralized at the city-state of babylon collapsed to foreign invasion | 27 | |
| 2836704971 | ideographic | type of written communication in which symbols are used typical of Chinese | 28 |
