Ch. 1-2 Flashcards

293730685	Paleolithic	most of the 2 million years during which our species has existed; typified by use of crude stone/stick tools and hunting and gathering for subsistence	0
293730686	Mesolithic Age	imrovement in tool and weapon making; domestication of animals (cows, pigs, sheep, goats); advances in sailing and fishing. 10,000 B.C.	1
293730687	Neolithic revolution	when humans went from being nomad/hunter gatherers to settling in one place and farming	2
293730688	Prehistoric	before written history	3
293730689	Metalworking	the activity of making things out of metal in a skillful manner	4
293730690	civilization	a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations)	5
293730691	Catal Huyuk	one of the world's first cities in modern Turkey	6
293730692	River Valley Civilization	mesopotamia also called the fertile crescent	7
293730693	Tigris Euphrates Civilization	The first civilization, developed absolutely from scratch- with no examples from any other place to imitate.	8
293730694	Sumerians	the earliest known civlization; were the first to have a language and are responsible for the creation of irrigation technology, cunieform, and religious conceptions.	9
293730695	Egyptian civilization	formed by 3000 BCE along the Nile River; influenced by Mesopotamia's trade and technology; had a pharaoh and stayed a unified state for most of its history	10
293730696	Indus River Valley Civilizations	the earliest South Asian civilizations which emerged around 2600 B.C.E., in present-day Pakistan, and flourished for about 700 years	11
293730697	Chinese River Valley civilizations	Hwang River developed in isolation. Organized state, regulated irrigation in a flood prone river valley. Advance technology and intellectual life.	12
293730698	Shang Dynasty	Second Chinese dynasty (about 1750-1122 B.C.) which was mostly a farming society ruled by an aristocracy mostly concerned with war. They're best remembered for their art of bronze casting.	13
293730699	Zhou Dynasty	the imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC; notable for the rise of Confucianism and Daoism... replaced Shang Dynasty	14
293730700	Qin Dynasty	(221-207 BCE) first centralized dynasty of China that used Legalism as its base of belief. replaced Zhou	15
293730701	Shi Huangdi	founder of the Qin dynasty and China's first emperor	16
293730702	Han Dynasty	imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time) from 206 BC to 221 replaced Qin and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy	17
293730703	Wu Ti	Best Known Han Emperor and he greatly enlarged the Han Dynasty to Central Asia.	18
293730704	Mandarin	a high public official of imperial China	19
293730705	Confucius	Chinese philosopher (circa 551-478 BC)	20
293730706	Legalism	Chinese philosophy ; taught that humans are naturally evil and therefore need to be ruled by harsh laws	21
293730707	Daoism	Chinese philosophy which founded by Laozi. emphasizes living in harmony with nature	22