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4770790002Neolithic revolutionThe agricultural revolution0
4770790955The deliberate cultivation of particular plants and the domestication of particular animals.What was the Agricultural Revolution?1
4770793630The last ice age ended 16,000 years ago and the climate started to be more like it is today.Why did the Agricultural Revolution occur at a specific time?2
4770795387They collected wild plants so they may be responsible for plant domestication.What was women's role in hunting and gathering?3
4770796863As hunters, men are most likely responsible for the domestication of animals.What was men's role in hunting and gathering?4
4770799035They led to the major changes in the status of women in the wake of the Agricultural Revolution.What did these roles lead to?5
4771133605As the ice age ended and the earth warmed up, people began to establish permanent villages to exploit the local area.Why settle down?6
4771134840waterWhat were the villages almost always near?7
4771135956natural diffusion, colonization, and migrationWhat ways did agriculture spread?8
4771139016brought agriculture, language, and cattle raising with them, also death and conquest over the next few years.What did the Bantu migration in Africa bring with them?9
4771141158The Hadza are living a hunter-gatherer life style that is little changed from 10,000 years ago.What groups continue to hunt and gather?10
4771143292In areas like central Asia farming was impossible, people depend on animals, also knows as nomads, herders, or pastoralists, followed food for the animals.How was the Agriculture Revolution a variation of the Neolitihic Revolution?11
4771145572People who spread new technology, as they interacted with settled people.What are pastoralists?12
4771147226more food = more people, no need for everyone to work towards food production, allows people to explore other areas/innovate.Agricultural societies?13
4771148058fundamentally changed human society, rich and poor, landowners and peasants, rulers and subjects, dominate men and subordinate women, slaves and free people, occurred in highly productive agricultural settings which generated substantial economic surplus = civilizationLegacy of agriculture?14
4791835800Farmers, merchants, metallurgist, craftsman, priest, political administrationsSocial organization in Mesopotamia?15
4791842306Free landowning class, dependent farmers and artisans additional note: slaves could purchase freedomSocial classes in Mesopotamia?16
4791848357marriage contacts, could own property, not involved in politics, wore veils in publicWomen's roles in Mesopotamia?17
4791857766This is where the Eurphraties and Taurus rivers are.map of Mesopotamia18
4791859807Canals, which tells us how they watered their plants. The temple and the palace of the king was the center of power. Peasents built mud brick and reed houses. Ziggurats, built for religious reasons.Architecture in Mesopotamia?19
4791868768Farmers usually lived in villages, families would protect and help each other, organized in a city-state, temples housed religion rituals, The Law code of Hammurabi shows social divisions.Basic political and social structures in Mesopotamia?20
4791874292This is where the Nile River is.map of Egypt (in Africa)21
4791881538Pyramids, "Nilometers", stone staircases incised units of height along the river's edge which shows dependence on Nile, rectangular tombs made of mud shows their respect for the dead.Architecture in Egypt?22
4791893203The pharoh is the religious leader and the king represents a god, their religion has different gods that represent different things, this government would be considered a theocratic absolute monarchy, the king and high-ranking officials liked status, local leaders and priests, and the peasents came last, small amount of slaves, women played roles in the behind-the-scene part of politics.Basic Political and Social structure in Egypt?23
4791905039Indus ValleyMap of India24
4791906784high brick walls, street grid, mud bricks, grain storage buildings show strong central authority, citaldels elevated enclosed compound containing large buildings.Architecture in India?25
4791912273Their religion consists of gods and sacred animals, harc was a strong central authority, traded with Mesopotamia and China, strong class distinction, status of women suggests a reverence for female reproduction, large grandaires in cities, standardization in planning and construction in cities, by 1900 BCE civilization is pretty much gone.Basic political and social structure in India?26
4800481592systems of record keeping arose independently in all early civilizations and subsequently were diffused, not all systems were written. Mesoamerica: quipu (rope). We know what hieroglyohics says because of the rosetta stone. Mesopotamia: cuneiformRecord of keeping?27
4800488972reflection of culture. social and gender hierarchies intensified as states expanded and cities multipliedLiterature?28
4800496249moves from local to regional and transreigonal. Egypt and Nubia trade, Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley. focus is on luxury goods and started about 3000 BCETrade?29
4800504528AryansWho started the Vedic religion?30
4800506055around 1500 BCEWhen did the Vedic Religion come to India?31
4800507914no written language but they composed poems and songs, passed orally from generationsHow was the Vedic religion passed down?32
4800511206The Rig VedaWhat is the main collection of the poems and songs from the Vedic religion?33
4800511807formed the basis of Hinduism, a strongly defined caste system, polytheistic, belief in reincarnation and karmaExtra on the Vedic religion?34
4800515864MesopotamiaWhere does Hebrew Monotheism come from?35
4800517691Abraham embraces the idea of 1 god, sets the stage for Christian and Jewish beliefsExtra on Hebrew Monotheism?36
4800522433in modern day IranWhere did Zoroastrianism start?37
4800523810"good words, good thoughts, good deeds."What is the main saying for Zoroastrianism?38
4800526463not exactly monotheistic but often gest credit for being the first, the source of all good, Angra Mazada, was in constant conflict with Angra Mainyu, the source of all evil. after 12,000 years Mazada would win. becomes the official religion of the Persian EmpireExtra about Zoroastrianism?39

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