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126840957Paleolithic AgeOld Stone Age, which runs until about 14,000 years ago. simple tool use. more erect stature and growing brain capacity0
126840958Homo SapiensThe human species of man that emerged as most successful at the end of the Paleolithic period.1
126840959Neolithic AgeThe new stone age, between 8000-5000 BCE period in which adaptations of sedentary agriculture occured: domestication of plants and animals accomplished2
126840960Patriarchal Societysocieties in which women differ to men, societies run by men and based on the assumption that men naturally direct political, economic, and cultural life3
126840961Neolithic Revolutionthe shift from hunting of animals and gathering of food to the keeping of animals and the growing of food on a regular basis around 8,000 BC4
126840962Civilization1-a society organized with cities, writing and a formal structure 2-a particular such society i.e. Chinese Civilization, that has distinctive, shared institutions and culture. Both uses of the term generate debate5
126840963speciaizationlabor that is divided into different parts. some people do one job while others do a different one6
126840964Jericho & Catal Huyukmost prominent neolithic villages In Catal Hayuk- distinctions based on social class and wealth increased7
126840965Mesopotamialiterally "between the rivers" the civilization that arose in the alluvial plain of the Tigris-Euphrates river valleys8
126840966SumerA group of ancient city-states in southern Mesopotamia; the earliest civilization in Mesopotamia.9
126840967CuneiformSumerian writing made by pressing a wedge-shaped tool into clay tablets10
126840968Polytheismbelieving in many gods-usually seen in aspects of nature11
126840969Hammurabi's CodeA legal code developed by King Hammurabi of Mesopotamia. The code was influential in the establishment of Hebrew and Islamic law and in the U.S. judiciary system. It specified crimes and punishments to help judges impose penalties.12
126840970Hieroglyphicsan ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds13
126840971HatshepsutQueen of Egypt (1473-1458 B.C.E.). Dispatched a naval expedition down the Red Sea to Punt (possibly Somalia), the faraway source of myrrh. There is evidence of opposition to a woman as ruler, and after her death her name was frequently expunged. (p.66)14

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