vocab 15-30
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| 31195447 | huanghe or yellow river basin | site of the development of sedentary agriculture in china | 0 | |
| 31195448 | Mesoamerica | mexico and central america; along with peru, site of development of sedentary agriculture in western hemisphere | 1 | |
| 31195449 | Jericho | early walled urban culture based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israel-occupied West Bank near Jordan river | 2 | |
| 31195450 | Catal Huyuk | early urban culture based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern southern Turkey; larger population than Jericho, had greater degree of social stratification | 3 | |
| 31195451 | Bronze Age | from 4000 to 3000 bc; increased use of plow, metalworking; development of sedentary agriculture in western hemisphere. | 4 | |
| 31195452 | Mesopotamia | literally "between the rivers"; the civilizations that arose in the alluvial plain of the Tigris-Euphrates river valleys. | 5 | |
| 31195453 | potter's wheel | a techonological advance in pottery making; invented ca. 6000 bc; encouraged faster and higher-quality ceramic pottery product. | 6 | |
| 31195454 | Sumerians | people who migrated into mesopotamia ca 4000 BC; created first civilization within region; organized area into city-states | 7 | |
| 31195455 | Cuneiform | a form of writing developed by the sumerians using a wedge-shaped stylus and clay tablets | 8 | |
| 31195456 | city-state | a form of political organization typical of mesopotamian civilization; consisted of agricultural hinterlands ruled by an urban-based king | 9 | |
| 31195457 | Epic of Gilgamesh | the first literary epic; written down ca 2000 BC; included story of the great flood. | 10 | |
| 31195458 | ziggurats | massive towers usually associated with mesopotamian temple connections | 11 | |
| 31195459 | animism | a religious outlook that recognizes gods in many aspects of nature and propitiates them to help control and explain nature; typical mesopotamian religions. | 12 | |
| 31195460 | Sargon 1 of Akkad | ruler of city-state of Akkad; established the first empire in Mesopotamian civilization ca. 2400 BC | 13 | |
| 31195461 | Babylonian Empire | unified all of Mesopotamia ca. 1800 BC; collapsed due to foreign invasion ca 1600 BC | 14 |
