291623267 | Paleolithic Age | old stone age, simple tools, develop cultures, spread of humans | 0 | |
291623268 | Mesolithic Age | middle stone age, domestication, sailing and fishing improvements, tool/weapon improvements | 1 | |
291623269 | Neolithic Age | new stone age, invention of agriculture, shift from hunting, develop skills in craft/science | 2 | |
291623270 | Bronze Age | discovery of metals, social classes | 3 | |
291623271 | Early Civilizations | stable communities, slash and burn, tribal bands | 4 | |
291623272 | Mesopotamia/Sumerians (rivers) | Tigris and Euphrates | 5 | |
291623273 | Egypt (river) | Nile | 6 | |
291623274 | Harappa and Mohenjo Daro (river) | Indus | 7 | |
291623275 | Chinese (river) | Huange (yellow) | 8 | |
291623276 | Civilization | a society with enough economic surplus to form divisions of labor and a social hierarchy of inequality | 9 | |
291623277 | cuneiform | wedge-like system of writing used by Sumerians | 10 | |
291623278 | Use of writing | record data like weather and taxes | 11 | |
291623279 | Written History | history of civilizations | 12 | |
291623280 | Nomads | Groups of people who wander in search of food, shelter, protection, etc | 13 | |
291623281 | Sumerians | agricultural civilization along Persian gulf, first city-states, mathmatical and science advances, ziggurats, conquered by Akkadians and Babylonians, Code of Hammurabi | 14 | |
291623282 | Egypt | benefits from Mesopotamia, pharaohs, advances in math and art | 15 | |
291623283 | Pharaoh | Egyptian king with direct knowledge and contact with gods | 16 | |
291623284 | Indus River | Traded with Mesopotamia and Egypt, destroyed by natural disasters | 17 | |
291623285 | Huange River | Shang Dynasty, well organized | 18 | |
291623286 | Major Achievments | alphabet, writing, wheel, domestication of animals, math, astronomy, monarchies, bureaucracies, time, pyramids, hanging gardens | 19 | |
291623287 | Phoenicians | invented letter alphabet on sounds | 20 | |
291623288 | Lydians | Introduced coined money | 21 | |
291623289 | Jews | Settled in the Mediterranean, had monotheism | 22 | |
291623290 | Similarities between first civilizations | basic tools, agriculture, math, language | 23 |
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