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From Hunting and Gathering to Civilizations, 2.5 million-1000 B.C.E.: Origins
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6615788731hunting and gatheringMeans of obtaining subsistence by humans before the mastery of sedentary agriculture; normally typical of tribal social organization0
6615788732civilizationSocieties with reliance on sedentary agriculture, ability to produce food surpluses, and existence of nonfarming elites, along with merchant and manufacturing groups1
6615788733neolithicThe New Stone Age between 8000 and 5000 B.C.E.; period in which adaptation of sedentary agriculture occurred; domestication of plants and animals accomplished2
6615788734nomadic societieslivestock hearding societies that do not have a permanent settlement. normally found on the fringes of civilized (urban) societies; commonly referred to as "barbarian" by civilized societies3
6615788735cultureCombination of ideas, objects, and patterns of behavior that result from human social interaction4
6615788736agrarian revolutionOccurred between 8000 and 5000 B.C.E.; transition from hunting and gathering to sedentary agriculture5
6615788737pastoralismA nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies6
6615788738Catal HuyukEarly urban culture/civiization based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern southern Turkey; larger in population than Jericho, had greater degree of social stratification7
6615788739Bronze AgeFrom 4000 to 3000 B.C.E.; increased use of plow, metalworking; development of wheeled vehicles, writing8
6615788740MesopotamiaLiterally "between the rivers"; the civilization that arose in the alluvial plain of the Tigris-Euphrates river valleys9
6615788741potter's wheelA technological advance in pottery making; invented circa 6000 B.C.E.; encouraged faster and higher-quality ceramic pottery products10
6615788742SumeriansPeople who migrated into Mesopotamia circa 4000 B.C.E.; created the first civilization within the region; organized area into city-states11
6615788743cuneiformA form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge-shaped stylus and clay tablets12
6615788744city-stateA form of political organization typical of Mesopotamian civilization; consisted of agricultural hinterlands ruled by an urban-based king13
6615788745ziggurata massive tower building usually associated with Mesopotamian temple connections14
6615788746Babylonian EmpireUnified all of Mesopotamia circa 1800 B.C.E.; collapsed due to foreign invasion circa 1600 B.C.E.15
6615788747HammurabiThe most important Babylonian ruler; responsible for codification of the law16
6615788748PharaohThe term used to denote the kings of ancient Egypt; the term, "great house" refers to the palace of the pharaohs17
6615788749pyramidsMonumental architecture typical of Old Kingdom Egypt; used as burial sites for pharaohs18
6615788750hieroglyphsForm of writing developed in ancient Egypt; more pictorial than Mesopotamian cuneiform19
6615788751KushAfrican state that developed along the upper reaches of the Nile circa 1000 B.C.E.; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries20
6615788752monotheismThe exclusive worship of one god; introduced by Jews into Middle Eastern civilization21
6615788753PhoeniciansSeafaring civilization located on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean; established colonies throughout the Mediterranean22
6615788754Harappa and Mohenjo DaroMajor urban complexes of Harappan civilization; laid out on planned grid pattern23
6615788755AryansIndo-European nomadic, warlike, pastorialists who replaced Harappan civilization24
6615788756Huanghe (Yellow) River BasinSite of the development of sedentary agriculture in China25
6615788757Shang1st Chinese dynasty (after the legendary Xia)26
6615788758OraclesShamans or priests in Chinese society who foretold the future through interpreting animal bones cracked by heat; inscriptions on bones led to Chinese writing27
6615788759ideographic writingPictograph characters grouped together to create new concepts; typical of Chinese writing28
6615788760Big GeographyA term that draws attention to the global nature of world history.29
6615788761PaleolithicThe period that ended about 3,000 years after the end of the last Ice Age, it lasted until about 10,000 years ago. (Old Stone Age) The period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans. It predates the Neolithic period.30
6615788762Human migration during Paleolithic eramovement of humans from Africa to Eurasia, Australia, and the Americas31
6615788763eglitarianequality among people (no social levels)32
6615788764toolsHumans developed a wider range of ____ specially adapted to different environments from tropics to tundra33
6615788765Neolithic Revolutionperiod of change from hunter-gatherer lifesyle to agricultural lifestyles associated with domestication, farming, and settlement34
6615788766patriarchyfather based/male dominated society35
6615788767climatic changePermanent agricultural villages emerged first in the lands of the eastern Mediterranean, possibly as a response to what?36
6615788768weaponsPastoralists were often the developers and disseminators of of ____ and forms of transportation that transformed warfare in agrarian civilizations37
6615788769horsesname one mode of new transportation by the pastoralists38
6615788770artElites, both political and religious, promoted ____.39
6615788771record-keeping systems___ arose independently in all early civilization sand subsequently were diffused40
6615788772Nile RiverThis river flooded regularly.41
6615788773Tigris RiverThis river's floods were unpredictable.42
6615788774MesopotamianUnpredictable weather patterns affected the development of the _____ civilization.43
6615788775Egyptian_______art demonstrated little change for nearly 1000 years.44
6615788776Nubia and KushKingdoms upriver from Egypt.45
6615788777Standard of Ur46
6615788778Harappan King or Priest Figure47
6615788779JerichoOne of the earliest cities: located in modern Israel.48
6615788780Catal-HyoukOne of the earliest cities: located in modern Turkey.49
6615788781Papyrusa material prepared in ancient Egypt from the pithy stem of a water plant, used in sheets throughout the ancient Mediterranean world for writing or painting on and also for making rope, sandals, and boats.50
6615854692Mandate of HeavenThe Chinese philosophical concept of the circumstances under which a ruler is allowed to rule.51
6615862602Hittitea member of an ancient people who established an empire in Asia Minor and Syria that flourished from c. 1700 to c. 1200 BC.52
6615869219HatshepsutHatshepsut ( meaning Foremost of Noble Ladies; 1507-1458 BC) was the fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt.53
6615880066AkhenatenAkhenaten, known before the fifth year of his reign as Amenhotep IV, was an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty who ruled for 17 years and died perhaps in 1336 BC or 1334 BC.54
6615891387Ramesses IIRamesses II, also known as Ramesses the Great and Ozymandias, was the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt. He often is regarded as the greatest, most celebrated, and most powerful pharaoh of the Egyptian Empire.55
6615895781AshurbanipalAshurbanipal, also spelled Assurbanipal or Ashshurbanipal, was an Assyrian king, the son of Esarhaddon and the last strong king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.56
6615908022IsraelIsrael, a Middle Eastern country on the Mediterranean Sea, is regarded by Jews, Christians and Muslims as the biblical Holy Land. Its most sacred sites are in Jerusalem.57
6615919713Cyrus the GreatCyrus II of Persia, commonly known as Cyrus the Great and also called Cyrus the Elder by the Greeks, was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire.58
6615922783Ideologya system of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy.59
6615925587Royal Roadan ancient highway reorganized and rebuilt by the Persian king Darius the Great of the Achaemenid Empire in the 5th century BC.60
6615930034PolynesianPolynesia is a subregion of Oceania, made up of over 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean.61
6615940204Hebrew BibleHebrew Bible or Hebrew Scriptures is the term used by biblical scholars to refer to the Tanakh, the canonical collection of Jewish texts, which is the common textual source of several canonical editions of the Christian Old Testament.62
6615941687Phoeniciansan ancient civilization composed of independent city-states which lay along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea stretching through what is now Syria, Lebannon and northern Israel.63

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