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From Hunting and Gathering to Civilizations, 2.5 million-1000 B.C.E.: Origins
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7873658488hunting and gatheringMeans of obtaining subsistence by humans before the mastery of sedentary agriculture; normally typical of tribal social organization0
7873658489civilizationSocieties with reliance on sedentary agriculture, ability to produce food surpluses, and existence of nonfarming elites, along with merchant and manufacturing groups1
7873658490neolithicThe New Stone Age between 8000 and 5000 B.C.E.; period in which adaptation of sedentary agriculture occurred; domestication of plants and animals accomplished2
7873658491nomadic 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
7873658492cultureCombination of ideas, objects, and patterns of behavior that result from human social interaction4
7873658493agrarian revolutionOccurred between 8000 and 5000 B.C.E.; transition from hunting and gathering to sedentary agriculture5
7873658494pastoralismA nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies6
7873658496Bronze AgeFrom 4000 to 3000 B.C.E.; increased use of plow, metalworking; development of wheeled vehicles, writing7
7873658497MesopotamiaLiterally "between the rivers"; the civilization that arose in the alluvial plain of the Tigris-Euphrates river valleys8
7873658513Huanghe (Yellow) River BasinSite of the development of sedentary agriculture in China9
7873658517Big GeographyA term that draws attention to the global nature of world history.10
7873658518PaleolithicThe 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.11
7873658519Human migration during Paleolithic eramovement of humans from Africa to Eurasia, Australia, and the Americas12
7873658520eglitarianequality among people (no social levels)13
7873658521toolsHumans developed a wider range of ____ specially adapted to different environments from tropics to tundra14
7873658522Neolithic Revolutionperiod of change from hunter-gatherer lifesyle to agricultural lifestyles associated with domestication, farming, and settlement15
7873658523patriarchyfather based/male dominated society16
7873658524climatic changePermanent agricultural villages emerged first in the lands of the eastern Mediterranean, possibly as a response to what?17
7873658525weaponsPastoralists were often the developers and disseminators of of ____ and forms of transportation that transformed warfare in agrarian civilizations18
7873658529Nile RiverThis river flooded regularly.19
7873658530Tigris RiverThis river's floods were unpredictable.20

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