Chapter 1 review for midterm Flashcards

291623267	Paleolithic Age	old stone age, simple tools, develop cultures, spread of humans	0
291623268	Mesolithic Age	middle stone age, domestication, sailing and fishing improvements, tool/weapon improvements	1
291623269	Neolithic Age	new stone age, invention of agriculture, shift from hunting, develop skills in craft/science	2
291623270	Bronze Age	discovery of metals, social classes	3
291623271	Early Civilizations	stable communities, slash and burn, tribal bands	4
291623272	Mesopotamia/Sumerians (rivers)	Tigris and Euphrates	5
291623273	Egypt (river)	Nile	6
291623274	Harappa and Mohenjo Daro (river)	Indus	7
291623275	Chinese (river)	Huange (yellow)	8
291623276	Civilization	a society with enough economic surplus to form divisions of labor and a social hierarchy of inequality	9
291623277	cuneiform	wedge-like system of writing used by Sumerians	10
291623278	Use of writing	record data like weather and taxes	11
291623279	Written History	history of civilizations	12
291623280	Nomads	Groups of people who wander in search of food, shelter, protection, etc	13
291623281	Sumerians	agricultural civilization along Persian gulf, first city-states, mathmatical and science advances, ziggurats, conquered by Akkadians and Babylonians, Code of Hammurabi	14
291623282	Egypt	benefits from Mesopotamia, pharaohs, advances in math and art	15
291623283	Pharaoh	Egyptian king with direct knowledge and contact with gods	16
291623284	Indus River	Traded with Mesopotamia and Egypt, destroyed by natural disasters	17
291623285	Huange River	Shang Dynasty, well organized	18
291623286	Major Achievments	alphabet, writing, wheel, domestication of animals, math, astronomy, monarchies, bureaucracies, time, pyramids, hanging gardens	19
291623287	Phoenicians	invented letter alphabet on sounds	20
291623288	Lydians	Introduced coined money	21
291623289	Jews	Settled in the Mediterranean, had monotheism	22
291623290	Similarities between first civilizations	basic tools, agriculture, math, language	23