123466373 | Slash And Burn Agriculture | Slash the bark and burn the trees to the ground | 0 | |
123466374 | Breeding of animals allowed... | people to stay in one place | 1 | |
123466375 | Job Specialization | People could do other jobs such as metalsmith, miller, brewer, trader. Surplus NEEDED | 2 | |
123466376 | Surplus | Extra food. Needed for Job specialization | 3 | |
123466377 | Gender roles | Men=Worked on the field Herding Animals Women=Inside the house taking care of kids | 4 | |
123466378 | Copper | The earliest metal used for jewlery and simple tools | 5 | |
123466379 | Bronze | Copper+Tin. More workable and stronger. | 6 | |
123466380 | Wheel | Sumerians used it to carry stuff in chariots | 7 | |
123466381 | Pastoral nomadism | Pastoral nomads depended on their herd for survival | 8 | |
123466382 | Steppe | Tall Feathery grass that grew in areas where there was not much rainfall, ideal for animal grazing | 9 | |
123466383 | Fertile Crescent | Southwest Asia. "The land between the waters" | 10 | |
123466384 | Free Commoners | Peasants, Craftsmen, scribes | 11 | |
123466385 | Dependent Clients | Commoners who owned no property and worked only on the estates of others | 12 | |
123466386 | Slaves | Prisoners of war, or people serving punishment for debt crimes. | 13 | |
123466387 | Ziggurats | Temples to the gods in Sumer | 14 | |
123466388 | Hammurabi | Famous emperor of Mesopotamia used an organized central bureaucracy and regular taxation to aid in ruling his empire. Most famous for his legal codes of laws. | 15 | |
123466389 | Hieroglyphics | Egyptian written language made up of pictographs. | 16 | |
123466390 | Harrapa And Mohnjo-Daro | Indus civilizations that are much mystery even today. They had grid based cities and were technologically and economically advanced. Language is still a mystery today. | 17 | |
123466391 | India | Aryans, nomadic people of Indo-European Origin entered India and dominated the inhabitants of the Indus valley | 18 | |
123466392 | Vedas | A collection of sacred hymns, songs, prayers, and rituals (Aryans) | 19 | |
123466393 | Caste System | People were divided into four varnas based on occupation and purity. Brahmins=Priest, Ksatriyas=Warriors, vaisyas=merchants, shudras=servants. | 20 | |
123466394 | Chinese Civilizations | Developed around the Huang He or Yellow River | 21 | |
123466395 | Shang | First Chinese dynasty, oracle bones to tell the future. | 22 | |
123466396 | Zhou | Chinese Dynasty after the Shang, cemented important Chinese traditional foundations. Dynasty that fell because of the Warring States. | 23 | |
123466397 | Mandate of Heaven | Power to rule was granted from heaven. Floods, Earthquakes, Natural disasters=God doesn't like you anymore. Over thrown | 24 | |
123466398 | Veneration of Ancestors | The Zhou dynasty placed great emphasis on the family unit. Respect elders. | 25 | |
123466399 | Olmecs | First American civilizations with agriculture. built masks and human figurines out of jade. Colossal Heads. No one knows why they fell. | 26 | |
123466400 | Colossal Heads | Olmecs built them six feet hight heads carved of stone | 27 | |
123466401 | Axial Age | Around 600 BCE major religions and philosophies and philosophers emerged. These "axial" ideas were the core ideas around which civilizations revolved around. | 28 | |
123466402 | Dharma | Duty (Hinduism). | 29 | |
123466403 | Karma | Sum of all good and bad deeds performed (Hinduism) | 30 | |
123466404 | Samsara | By following your dharma (duty) and by keeping up good karma (sum of all bad and good deeds) a Hinduist can move up in the level of Samsara. Samsara=Level | 31 | |
123466405 | Reincarnated | The new position a Hinduist receives in the next life depends on how well they performed their dharma (duty) in their past life. | 32 | |
123466406 | Moksha | Oneness with the universe (Hinduism) | 33 |
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