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| 200880561 | What is the Paleolithic Age? | old stone age. (200,000-8,000 BCE) | 0 | |
| 200880562 | People in Paleolithic age? | hunters/gatherers. people moved in search of wild animals & edible plants (nomadic lifestyle) | 1 | |
| 200880563 | Tribal Units in paleolithic age? | most tribes not larger than 50 people. world population less than 2 million | 2 | |
| 200880564 | What are the gender roles of the Paleolithic AGe? | women: foraged, cooked, cared for children. men: hunted game | 3 | |
| 200880565 | How do we know the paleolithic lived back then? | no written documents, no writing, no written records | 4 | |
| 200880566 | what is one paleolithic artifact? | cave paintings | 5 | |
| 200880567 | What is neolithic? | agriculture revolution; new stone age begins around 8,000 BCE | 6 | |
| 200880568 | Neolithic marks change from... | food gathering to food production | 7 | |
| 200880569 | People of neolithic learned to do what to keep living? | grow crops & domisticate animals | 8 | |
| 200880570 | staple foods of neolithic? | cereal crops, bread, beer, porrige | 9 | |
| 200880571 | what are hunter-gatherers? | A member of a nomadic people who live chiefly by hunting, fishing, and harvesting wild food | 10 | |
| 200880572 | Agricultural Revolution: Why did the change happen? | more reliaable food sources make life more secure; larger communities possible | 11 | |
| 200880573 | Agricultural Revolution: Why did the practice of agriculture spread? | agricultural communities grew in population and expanded into new areas NOTE: CHANGE WAS NOT SUDDEN.. HAPPENED OVER MANY GENERATIONS!! | 12 | |
| 200880574 | What is technology? | the use of knowledge, tools, and crafts to change the environment or adapt to it | 13 | |
| 200880575 | Agricultural Revolution: Technology & Agriculture? | Agriculture gace people better technology to control their environment | 14 | |
| 200880576 | Why is agriculture the key to civilization? | it enables a small percentage of the population to work in other jobs besides food production (greater division of labor) | 15 | |
| 200880577 | Where did agricultural settlements grow? | into villages and cities | 16 | |
| 200880578 | How did agriculture change human society and make civilization possible? | Gave people better technology to control their environments; enables a small percentage of the population to work in other jobs besides food production; larger communities; more reliable food sources secure | 17 | |
| 200880579 | what were the original four river valley civilizations? | Tigris/Euphrates Nile River Indus River Yellow River | 18 | |
| 200880580 | Explain how environment and geography influenced the cultural development of early civilizations. Discuss some examples. | places that don have metal and cont produce metal, then they dont improve as quickly or have the same inventions and places that do | 19 | |
| 200880581 | city-states? | a city and its surrounding farmland | 20 | |
| 200880582 | Epic of Gilgamesh? | one of the earliest works of literature in the world; a long poem of many myths/legends | 21 | |
| 200880583 | Code of Hammurabi? | one of the earliest legal systems; reveals a stern code of justice | 22 | |
| 200880584 | cuneiform? | a system of writing based on wedge shaped characters impressed in clay by a reed | 23 | |
| 200880585 | pharoahs? | egyptian kings | 24 | |
| 200880586 | papyrus? | form of paper; egyptians came up with | 25 | |
| 200880587 | oracle bones? | scratch a question on a tortoise shell or bone; apply heat; priest reads the cracks to interpret answer | 26 | |
| 200880597 | Xia dynasty | pre 1750 bce; no direct evidence of its existence; | 27 | |
| 200880598 | Shang dynasty | ruled by warrior aristocracy; polytheistic religion; important ancstors; divided noble & peasants; developed system of writing | 28 | |
| 200880599 | Zhou dynasty | 1045-221 bce; wen & wu rulers; introduced mandate of heaven; dynastic cycle; overthrew shang dynasty; longest lasting dynasty; replaced bronze with iron; | 29 | |
| 200880600 | dynastic cycle | dynasty is founded by powerful leader... period of great power and prosperity... period of decline.... period of rebellion, dynasty overthrown... & repeated. | 30 | |
| 200880601 | wen & wu | rulers of zhou territory, led a rebellion to overthrow the shang dynasty | 31 | |
| 200880602 | mandate of heaven | explains the dynastic cycle; dynasty founded by powerful leader.. period of great power.. period of decline.. period of rebellion, dynasty overthrown.. | 32 | |
| 200880603 | feng shui | construction of cities, buildings, rooms to place them in harmony, with the natural surroundings | 33 | |
| 200880604 | confucianism | people essentially good; there is a strict hierarchy in society and everyone must know his place, perform proper duties, and live according to a strict moral code | 34 | |
| 200880605 | Daoism | based on the teachings of laozi; man must conform his will to be in harmony with the natural universe | 35 | |
| 200880606 | legalism | people are essentially wicked and must be ruled with strict laws and the threat of severe punishment | 36 | |
| 200880607 | patriarchy | eldest male makes decisions for family; government leaders are typically males | 37 | |
| 200880608 | matriarchy | women are in leadership roles; government leaders are typically female | 38 | |
| 200880609 | dowry | the brides lure to the groom. like land, money, etc. | 39 | |
| 200880610 | bride gift | from groom's family to brides family as sign of grooms welath and standings | 40 | |
| 200880611 | mesoamerica | modern mexico and central america | 41 | |
| 200880612 | olmec civilization | arose in mesoamerica; political system was monarchy; agriculture was corn, beans, and squash; religion was polytheistic; built in conjunction of stars; started ritual ball game that spread | 42 | |
| 200880613 | chavin civilization | 900-250 bce; andean coast of western south america; challenging environment, coastal plains, mountain highlands, dense jungles; andes mountains; llamas used as pack animals; maize, potatoes, fruits, quinoa, and coca leaves; first people to practice metallurgy in the americas; easy access to food from the sea | 43 | |
| 200880614 | llama | used as beasts of burden (only pack animal available in the americas) | 44 | |
| 200880615 | cosmopolitan | a period of increased trade and cultural exchange; middle east | 45 | |
| 200880617 | mediteranean sociesties? | minoan, mycenaean greeks, phoenicia, phoetic alphabet | 46 | |
| 200880619 | mycenean greeks | mountainous environment; independent kingdoms; engaged in trade; linear script b, form of writing; collapse civilization around 1200 bce; mass migrations and | 47 |
