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| 5109109702 | Pre-History | The time before written records | 0 | |
| 5109115445 | Civilization | An organized developed society | 1 | |
| 5109146710 | Culture | Material objects, clothing, crafts, tools, beliefs, language of a society. | 2 | |
| 5109172631 | Paleolithic Era | Evolution of stone age/ old stone age | 3 | |
| 5109191234 | Kinship Groups | A family/group with blood relations | 4 | |
| 5109205330 | Hunter-Gatherers Forageres | People who live off the land and hunt for their food and gather their food. | 5 | |
| 5109208483 | Features of Civilization | Cities served as administrative centers, Political System based on control of territory, people involved in activities not food related, status distinction linked to $$, keeps permanent records (drawings, pictures, words, symbols), monumental buildings, long distance trade, major advances (art, science), and complex institutions. | 6 | |
| 5109277273 | Neolithic Revolution (agriculture revolution) | Transition from humans hunting and gathering to growing own crops by farming. | 7 | |
| 5109291468 | Nomadic vs Sedentary | Nomadic had easily and quick constructed temporary homes. Sedentary had more durable homes that were permanent. | 8 | |
| 5109322414 | Fertile Crescent | Crescent shaped land between Tigris and Euphrates river that supplied the land with rich silt to make the land fertile | 9 | |
| 5109331581 | Domestication of Plants and Animals | We controlled nature and used them for our use. Used dogs for hunting, cows for milk and meat, and other animals for clothing. Plants raised and took care by humans | 10 | |
| 5109367773 | Pastoralism | Branch of agriculture for raising livestock | 11 | |
| 5109375584 | Migratory Farmers | Farmers that migrate instead of settling after using up the land | 12 | |
| 5109408443 | Hierarchical Society | a system in which people or things are placed in a series of levels with different importance or status. | 13 | |
| 5109435818 | Social Stratificatoin | System which a society ranks people (social classes) | 14 | |
| 5109442535 | Patrilineal/Matrilineal | Patrilineal- society which the male is dominate. Matrilineal- society which a woman is dominate/superior to men | 15 | |
| 5109530953 | Speciallization of Labor | the breakdown of jobs into narrow and repetitive tasks. | 16 | |
| 5117389525 | Gender Division of Labor | Having the men hunt and do all of the "strong/hard" work and the woman cook the food and take care of the kids | 17 | |
| 5117392080 | Technology: Pottery, Plows, Woven Textiles, Metallurgy, Wheels and wheels vehicles | These are achievements and artifacts left behind that archaeologists have studies. This was also part of their culture. | 18 | |
| 5117396521 | Irrigation Systems | System to take water from river to water crops. Without it plants would most likely die. | 19 | |
| 5117398492 | Tigris and Euphrates Rivers | The rivers by Mesopotamia that provided it with fertile soil/silt and Euphrates had unpredictable floods 2x a year. | 20 | |
| 5117400889 | Record Keeping- Cuneiform, Hieroglyphics, Pictograms etc | Sign of civilization. Cuneiform from Mesopotamia, Hieroglyphics from Egypt. Let us know history from that area. | 21 | |
| 5117405497 | Megalith | a large stone that forms a prehistoric monument. and BURIAL | 22 | |
| 5117406134 | Ma'at | Concept of truth, morality, law, and justice. Maat goddess of stars set order of universe from creation. | 23 | |
| 5117410728 | Monarchy vs Theocracy vs Bureacracy | Monarchy= king/queen Theocracy=priest/ ruler rules in name of God Bureaucracy=important decisions made by state officials rather than elected representatives/could be hierachy | 24 | |
| 5117417397 | Surplus Labor | Doing more labor than what is need for necessities. Started specialization in labor | 25 | |
| 5117424525 | Monotheistic vs Polytheistic | one god vs more than one | 26 | |
| 5117425077 | Animism and Totemism | plant/animal posses magic powers...soul to in-inmate objects | 27 | |
| 5117425078 | Ancestor Veneration | worship male ancestors | 28 | |
| 5117425848 | Egyptian Religion | believed in afterlife, polytheistic, pharaoh was between god and people, mummifying people to preserve body for after life, built pyramids for burial of pharaoh | 29 | |
| 5117429497 | Trade Networks: Egypt/Nubia, Indus/Mesopotamia, China etc | Egypt traded with Nubia because it had gold which was very valuable to them. Nubia traded with Egypt for ideas ex the pyramids as burial temples Indus traded with China for precious Jade and wood Mesopotamia traded with neighboring countries (Indus river valley)to get knew materials since they didn't have any China traded with Mesopotamia a little bit but mostly Ethnocentric. | 30 | |
| 5117430024 | Epic of Gilgamesh | earliest known literature-from Mesopotamia. The first half of the story discusses Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, and Enkidu, a wild man created by the gods to stop Gilgamesh from oppressing the people of Uruk. After an initial fight, Gilgamesh and Enkidu become close friends. Together, they journey to the Cedar Mountain and defeat Humbaba, its monstrous guardian. | 31 | |
| 5117430025 | Hammurabi's Code | Law of Mesopotamia- earliest known laws | 32 | |
| 5117430497 | Harappa | Civilization from Indus River Valley 1 of 2 greatest cities | 33 | |
| 5117430498 | Mohenjo-Daro | 1 of two greatest cities from Indus River Valley civilization | 34 | |
| 5117430944 | Xia/Shang/Zhou | Early civilization dynasties | 35 | |
| 5117430945 | Ziggurats | Mesopotamian religious temple | 36 | |
| 5117430946 | Scribes | person who draws, writes documents, books. | 37 | |
| 5117431653 | Hyksos | the people who invaded Egypt thus beginning the second Intermediate period during which the Hyksos ( ruled as pharaohs in Lower Egypt and exacted tribute from the royal families in Thebes. | 38 |
