199264826 | hunter gatherer | people that acquire food for their village by using the resources around them and following game; nomads, gender equality | 0 | |
199264827 | domestication | using animals as pets or as livestock (taming animals); leads to shelter, clothing, specialization and jobs, food | 1 | |
199264828 | social stratification | social classes; hierarchy; economic system that can lead to separation and intolerance | 2 | |
199264829 | innovations | newer and better changes made to existing ideas and objects; ex. rocks (weaponry), fire | 3 | |
199264830 | pastoral | herd or clan--nomads | 4 | |
199264831 | adaptations | changing in order to better fir the environment and culture | 5 | |
199264832 | homo sapien sapien | adapted, wiped out Neanderthols, "Wise Man" Same species as modern man. Migrated around the world and could create fire. Used a wide variety of tools | 6 | |
199264833 | paleolithic age | stone, The Old Stone Age, which lasted from 2.5 million to 8000 B.C. where the invention of tools, fire, and language took place. | 7 | |
199264834 | homo erectus | discover fire, stood upright, 2 limbs instead of four | 8 | |
199264835 | mesolithic age | middle stone, the middle period of the stone age, between the paleolithic and neolithic, The middle stone age, lasted from 10,000 B.C. to 6000 B.C. when we startedto control fire and develope language. | 9 | |
199264836 | neolithic revolution | agricultural revolution that brought the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture and settlement | 10 | |
199264837 | fertile crescent | crescent shaped area of fertile land in the middle east that extends through valley of Tigris and Euphrates down to Persian gulf; center of neolithic development | 11 | |
199264838 | resistance | immunity; the condition in which an organism can resist disease | 12 | |
199264839 | Mesopotamia | the land between tigris and euphrates; the site of several ancient civilizations; is now iraq; (Akkad, Sumer, babylonia, Assyria) | 13 | |
199264840 | slash and burn agriculture | cutting and burning forests and woodlands to create fields for agriculture or pasture for livestock; sustainable practice when population is low | 14 | |
199264841 | nomadic bands | people who have no permanent home but move according to seasons or agricultural reasons | 15 | |
199264842 | tribal bands | a tribe, viewed historically and developmentally, consisting of a social group before the development of states | 16 | |
199264843 | Catal Huyuk | neolithic settlement; one of the first villages of civilizations; mud brick buildings, social stratification; 32 acres | 17 | |
199264844 | hierarchy | a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system | 18 | |
199264845 | cuneiform | ancient writings of mesopotamia, persia, and ugarit; wedge shaped characters and script; earliest known writing system | 19 | |
199264846 | tigris and euphrates, egypt, india, china | four centers of early civilization | 20 | |
199264847 | sumerians | the earliest known civlization; were the first to have a language and are responsible for the creation of irrigation technology, cunieform, and religious conceptions. sumer/mesopotamia/babylonia | 21 | |
199264848 | ziggurats | a temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories | 22 | |
199264849 | babylonians | extended their empire and helped bring civilization to other parts of the Middle East; famous for Hammurabi's Law Code, rose in power in Mesopotamia after the Assyrians; conquered and exiled the peoples of the southern kingdom of Judah | 23 | |
199264850 | hammurabi | 6th king in the first dynasty of babylonia; extended the empire; earliest know collection of laws | 24 | |
199264851 | patriarchal | system, society, or government controlled by men | 25 |
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