Soc: Chapter 1 Flashcards

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