126484088 | Homo sapiens sapiens | They are the newest human breed, they originated about 120,000 years ago in Africa | 0 | |
126484089 | Neolithic Age | It was the final stone age and it occurred c.10,000 B.C.E. Along with the Neolithic age came the invention of agriculture and the creation of cities | 1 | |
126484090 | Neolithic Revolution | The development of agriculture that allowed people to settle permanently in one spot. And allowed people to focus on social, religious and economic goals | 2 | |
126484091 | Hunting and Gathering | They moved from place to place to hunt and gather their food instead of settling down to grow and harvest it. | 3 | |
126484092 | Bronze Age | When using metal for tools and weapons became more popular c. 3,000 B.C.E. | 4 | |
126484093 | Civilization | An agricultural society where most of the food comes from farming, societies with economic surplus to form divisions of labor & social hierarchy inequality | 5 | |
126484094 | Cuneiform | Writing based on wedge characters | 6 | |
126484095 | Nomads | Lived on the edge of civilized societies | 7 | |
126484096 | Mesopotamia | "Fertile Crescent"The home of the worlds first civilization started in the valley of the Tigris and the Euphrates. Some of their accomplishments were bronze,copper, the wheel pottery and irrigation | 8 | |
126484097 | Sumerians | They developed the cuneiform alphabet and their science helped develop the agriculture | 9 | |
126484098 | Ziggurat | Massive religious towers | 10 | |
126484099 | Babylonians | People who extended their empire and brought civilization further in the Middle East | 11 | |
126484100 | Hammurabi | Was the king of Babylon, best known for establishing rules of procedure for courts of law | 12 | |
126484101 | Pharaoh | Kings of ancient Egypt | 13 | |
126484102 | Pyramids | Burial sites for pharaohs of Ancient Egypt | 14 | |
126484103 | Kush | African state that developed along the upper Nile c.1000 BCE | 15 | |
126484104 | Indus River | It is in North West india and was a prosperous urban civilization | 16 | |
126484105 | Harappa & Mohenjo Daro | Two large cities that used running water in their homes | 17 | |
126484106 | Huanghe River | Located in China, the civilization that developed there regulated irrigation, knew how to ride horses and were skilled potters | 18 | |
126484107 | Ideographic | Pictographic characters, they changed how the Chinese wrote | 19 | |
126484108 | Phoenicians | Civilization on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, helped improve the Egyptian numbers system | 20 | |
126484109 | Mandate of Heaven | Source of political legitimacy of chinese rulers | 21 | |
126484110 | Monotheism | To worship one god only | 22 | |
126495118 | Paleolithic Age | "old stone age" c. 14,000 years ago; time where humans learned to manipulate stones and sticks into simple tools, erect stature , increased brain capacity, development of "cultures", fire and animal skins | 23 | |
126495119 | Mesolithic Age | "middle stone age", c.12,000 BCE - 8,000 BCE ; improvements in tool and weapon making, domestication of animals, advances in sailing and fishing, population growth | 24 | |
126495120 | Slash and Burn Agriculture | Practice of burning trees in one area, farming intensely for a few years and moving on when the soil is depleted | 25 | |
126495121 | Tribal bands | groups of people with strong kinship ties | 26 | |
126495122 | Sumer | first civilization developed along the Persian gulf, mathematics and astronomy, system of numbers based on 10,60 and 360 | 27 | |
126495123 | Lydians | introduced the first coined money | 28 |
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