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291623267Paleolithic Ageold stone age, simple tools, develop cultures, spread of humans0
291623268Mesolithic Agemiddle stone age, domestication, sailing and fishing improvements, tool/weapon improvements1
291623269Neolithic Agenew stone age, invention of agriculture, shift from hunting, develop skills in craft/science2
291623270Bronze Agediscovery of metals, social classes3
291623271Early Civilizationsstable communities, slash and burn, tribal bands4
291623272Mesopotamia/Sumerians (rivers)Tigris and Euphrates5
291623273Egypt (river)Nile6
291623274Harappa and Mohenjo Daro (river)Indus7
291623275Chinese (river)Huange (yellow)8
291623276Civilizationa society with enough economic surplus to form divisions of labor and a social hierarchy of inequality9
291623277cuneiformwedge-like system of writing used by Sumerians10
291623278Use of writingrecord data like weather and taxes11
291623279Written Historyhistory of civilizations12
291623280NomadsGroups of people who wander in search of food, shelter, protection, etc13
291623281Sumeriansagricultural civilization along Persian gulf, first city-states, mathmatical and science advances, ziggurats, conquered by Akkadians and Babylonians, Code of Hammurabi14
291623282Egyptbenefits from Mesopotamia, pharaohs, advances in math and art15
291623283PharaohEgyptian king with direct knowledge and contact with gods16
291623284Indus RiverTraded with Mesopotamia and Egypt, destroyed by natural disasters17
291623285Huange RiverShang Dynasty, well organized18
291623286Major Achievmentsalphabet, writing, wheel, domestication of animals, math, astronomy, monarchies, bureaucracies, time, pyramids, hanging gardens19
291623287Phoeniciansinvented letter alphabet on sounds20
291623288LydiansIntroduced coined money21
291623289JewsSettled in the Mediterranean, had monotheism22
291623290Similarities between first civilizationsbasic tools, agriculture, math, language23

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