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| 3702710035 | Marker Event | Events that change the course of history. Change in one area might not have occurred in another area till much later. | 0 | |
| 3702710036 | The year of our lord | What does A.D. stand for? | 1 | |
| 3702710037 | Perspective | Point of view | 2 | |
| 3702710038 | Demography | The study of population | 3 | |
| 3702710039 | Push factor | Encourages people to move from the region that they live in | 4 | |
| 3702710040 | Pull factor | Attracts people to a new region | 5 | |
| 3702710041 | Cultural Diffusion | People spreading here cultures to new areas | 6 | |
| 3702710042 | Neolithic (Agricultural) Revolution | Refers to the changeover from food gathering to food producing that serves as a marker event that transformed human society and the natural environment | 7 | |
| 3702710043 | Horticulture | Used only hand tools such as hoes or digging sticks to plant seeds and cultivate crops | 8 | |
| 3702710044 | Pastoralists | The first domesticators of animals, and they remained semi-nomadic, regularly leading their herds to fresh grazing lands | 9 | |
| 3702710045 | Independent Invention | Many people teaching themselves how to do things with them not knowing that others in different areas were doing the same thing | 10 | |
| 3702710046 | Specialization | Everybody had different roles in their area | 11 | |
| 3702710047 | Surplus | More crops than the farmer needed | 12 | |
| 3702710048 | Importance of Surplus | Had enough food for everybody, food could be stored, food supplies became more reliable, people ate more regularly, health improved, and population increased | 13 | |
| 3702710049 | Three Neolithic craft industries | Pottery, metallurgy, and textiles | 14 | |
| 3703530192 | It encouraged new forms of social organization partly because owning property wasn't incentive to make improvements particularly getting access to water | What did farming encourage? | 15 | |
| 3703530193 | Settle in villages rather than on isolated farms | What did irrigation lead people to do? | 16 | |
| 3703530194 | Generation of reliable surpluses, Holly specialized occupations, clear social class distinctions, growth of cities, complex, formal governments, long distance trade, and organized writing systems | What are characteristics of civilizations? | 17 | |
| 3703530195 | Because it may imply that civilized people are superior to uncivilized people | Why is the term civilization controversial? | 18 | |
| 3703555630 | Cultural Hearths | The areas where civilizations first began to radiate the ideas, innovations, and ideologies That culturally transformed the world | 19 | |
| 3703555631 | In Southwest Asia and north Africa, South Asia, and East Asia in the valleys and basin of great river systems | Where did early cultural hearths develop? | 20 | |
| 3703622828 | Labor systems | Coordinated efforts to get work done | 21 | |
| 3703622829 | Theocracies | Governed by gods or priests | 22 | |
| 3703622830 | The free land owning class, a class of dependent farmers and craftsman, and slaves | What three distinct classes in Mesopotamia did Hammurabi's code identify? | 23 | |
| 3703622831 | Cuneiform | Meaning wedge shaped | 24 | |
| 3703622832 | Egypt was awesome latest for much of its existence, while Mesopotamia was at a crossroads of population movements | Why did geographical location matter for the Egyptians and the Mesopotamians? | 25 | |
| 3703622833 | Pharaoh | Was not considered just to be a king, but also a God | 26 | |
| 3703622834 | Flooding in Egypt was regular and predictable, while in Mesopotamia flooding was a irregular and unpredictable, so that people had no choice but to react to, rather than prevent and contain the danger that was done | Describe flooding in Egypt and Mesopotamia | 27 | |
| 3703622835 | Increasing job specialization and transportation improvements | What encouraged long-distance trade? | 28 | |
| 3704285667 | Pharaoh | Granted his top bureaucrats a great deal of local authority | 29 | |
| 3704285668 | City states whose constantly clashing leaders made centralized government very tenuous | What was Mesopotamia's political system composed of? | 30 | |
| 3704285669 | Egypt had less pronounced social divisions then Mesopotamia, where more formal classes emerged | Need to know | 31 | |
| 3704285670 | Social Mobility | The ability of individuals to change social status | 32 | |
| 3704325206 | Patriarchy, however it is probable that the status of women was higher in Egypt then in Mesopotamia | What type of government did Egypt and Mesopotamia have? | 33 | |
| 3704325207 | Mesopotamian achievements and mathematics and astronomy were far more advanced than those of Egypt | Need to know | 34 | |
| 3704325208 | The Egyptians were very concerned with the death and preparation for life in another world where supreme happiness could be achieved | Need to know | 35 | |
| 3704325209 | The book of the dead | Divided into more than 150 chapters, it was mass produced for a prosperous clientele who each purchased a scroll, filled in the name of the deceased, and buried it was a persons body | 36 | |
| 3704444058 | As in Mesopotamia and Egypt, abundant crops allowed job specialization in the cities to develop. | Need to know | 37 | |
| 3704444059 | Beginning in the 1850s, archaeologist discovered the remains of the largest city, Mohenjo-Daro; a second city, Harappa; and a huge complex of towns and villages connected to them | Need to know | 38 | |
| 3704444060 | Sophisticated sewage systems with canals that ran from each house to a connecting to canal in the street | What was discovered in Mohenjo-Daro? | 39 | |
| 3704444061 | No evidence of an invasion has been found, so one theory is that the civilization suffered system failures | Describe the decline of the Indus Valley civilization | 40 | |
| 3704444062 | Although trade did exist between China and the others, distance and geographic barriers separated the areas so that in many ways east Asia developed independently from the others | Need to know | 41 | |
| 3704444063 | Because the yellow river was so prone to unpredictable flooding, early Chinese farmers and leaders had to come up with methods to control it | Need to know | 42 | |
| 3704444064 | Increasingly elaborate irrigation systems | What kept up with expanding agriculture? | 43 | |
| 3704444065 | Great earthen Dikes | What were constructed to manage the flow of the river in China? | 44 | |
| 3704444066 | Shi | Men of service | 45 | |
| 3704444067 | An important political development under the Zhou was the growing size and responsibility of professional bureaucrats, or shi | Need to know | 46 | |
| 3704444068 | Shi | Who were the forerunners of a scholarly governing class that would gain great power and status in later dynasties? | 47 | |
| 3704444069 | The mandate of heaven is a central belief that guided china through dynastic cycles that lasted until the early 20th century | Need to know | 48 | |
| 3704444070 | Organized religion did not play as important role in the development of early China as it did in most other ancient civilizations | Need to know | 49 | |
| 3704444071 | A few priests assistant royalty and rituals, but connections between family members on earth and their ancestors who had passed on where a very important element of heaven | Need to know | 50 | |
| 3704444072 | Until the late 15th century common era, developing civilizations in the Americas were almost completely cut off from those in the eastern hemisphere, so agriculture was independently invented and cultural diffusion took place within the geographical boundaries of North and South America | Need to know | 51 | |
| 3704444073 | Olmec Society was probably authoritarian and hierarchical. An elite Group of priests dominated the early Olmec cities and conducted elaborate religious rituals at the temples in the center of the cities | Need to know | 52 | |
| 3704444074 | Although the beliefs of the religion or unknown, a jaguar God with combined human and animal features was a very important symbol for the religion | Need to know | 53 |
