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Chp 2 & 3 Study
Question | Answer |
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What were the revolutionary transformations brought by the Neolithic revolution | The beginning of cultivation of particular plants and taming particular animals |
what was the importance of intensification in the Neolithic age | It meant getting more for less. they learned how to produce more food from smaller lands |
what accounts for the emergence of agriculture after a countless millennia of human life without it | The end of the ice age and moving of people around the world, climate warmer new plants and killed big animals, new tools, agriculture |
What were the indictaions that the transition of a fully agriculture and domesticated new way of a life took place quickly in the fertile cresent | variety of plants and animals that can be tamed, large increase in settlement, major innovations mud bricks and environmental deterioration |
How did the agriculture revolution of Africa differ from the revolution in the fertile crescent / | they domesticated their plants in scattered area , less productive agriculture |
While sorghum was the first grain to be tamed in east Africa, what plants were imported from west Africa | yam,oil, palm trees, okra, kola nut |
Describe the middle east spread of agriculture | plants were domesticated in small areas productive agricultutre more vaierty |
describe the americans spread of agriculture | domesticated in seprate locations, lack rich cereal grain no big animals only llama |
describe the African spread of agriculture | domesticated in scattered places , less productive agriculture |
Describe the Bantu migration beginning in 3,000 BCE and its impact on Africa | they moved east and south taking their culture and agriculture , they killed and drove away the palelothic people |
Where was the agriculture sometimes resited and why | Australia, west coast of north America, artic regions, SW Africa bevause some areas where unsitable for farming and lived in regions of abundance for hunting and gathering |
Postive affects of the agriculture revolution | increase in population, explosion of new technology innovation |
Negative affects of agricultural revolution ? | deterioration in health and less variety of food |
What are some new technologies invented during the revolution | vessels, weaving, textiles, metallurgy |
what are the three societies in the agricultural revolution ? | pastoral, agricultural village societies, and chiefdoms |
Pastoral societies | depend on the domestication of animals, know as herders,pastoralist, nomads, emerged from central asia,arabia peninsula,the sahara organized in kingship of tribes |
Agricultural village societies | depended on farming, men and women worked in certain positions organized in kingship or lineases ( incorporating a large group beyond the extended family |
Cheifdoms | organized politically , chiefs used force to compel obidence of subjects relied genorasity rituals status to persuade their followers |
Neolithic revolution | agriculture revolution changed hunting and gathering to farmng productivity |
Domestication | the taming of an animal or plants |
Fertile Crescent | region know as mesoptamia first to strat agricultural revolution |
Metallurgy | the working of gold to make jewelry, tools,wepons brought on by agriculture revolution |
Animal Husbandry | distinct form of food producing economy relying on the milk,meat and blood of animals |
Pastoralist | depend on domesticating animals |
Kinship groups | a family clan or group based on blood relationship |
Stateless societies | a society without a state |
Cheifdoms | inherited positions of power aand privilege introduced to more distinct element of inequality |
diffusion | the spreading of agriculture techniques without the movement of people |
what plants and animals are found in the Fertile crescent | Barley wheat lentils figs goats, sheep, cattle, pigs |
what plants and animals are found in Africa | sorghum, millet, yams, teff cattel |
What plants and animals are found in Mesoamerica | maize, squash turkey, llama |
How were the new civilizations diffrents from the earlier agricultural villages pastoral societies and chiefdoms | the didved the population into cities controlled by powerful states, diffrences in economic function, and divied the people by class, have pyramids, temples, places literature |
Where and when did the first civilization emerge | emerged around 3500 BCE to 3000 BCE in 3 places 1. Cradel- middle eastern civilization in many comepeting states, summer 2. nile river valley in NE Africa 3. central coat peru- desert region |
what was unique about sumer | wrote worlds earliest written language |
what was unique about eygpt | pharohs and pyramids, took shape as a united territory state |
Whtat was unique about norte chico | monumental structres, smaller cities economy based on fishing no writing lacked defense no war |
what was unique about the indus valley | no palaces , temples, graves kings or classes,has small republics ruled by preist |
what was unique about china ? | centralized state, tombs of rulers, human sacrifice, sun of heaven |
what was unique about the olmecs | along gulf of mexico, based on corn beans arose form cheifdoms created first written language in the Americas |
what explations are given for the rise of civilizations | the roots of the agriculture revolution, agriculture technology allowed to produce food for a large population, emerged from cheifdoms, irrigation projects |
How does Robert carneiro approach the question of the rise of civilization | he argued that a growing density of population producing more congested and competitive socities was a fundamental motor of change espically areas where rich, agriculture, land was limited by geography or competing socities |
what was the role of citites in the early civilization | political/administrative capitals, centers for production of art architecture literature rituals and ceremony market houses and palace of worship |
In what ways was social inequality expressed in early civilizations | inequalities in wealth status and power |
In the rival mesoptamina cities what was the role of female slaves | female slaves- worked in large scale semi-industrial waeving enerterprise male slaves- maintained irrigation canals and consttuct ziggurats serveants in the household |
Described slavery in all of the First civilization | varied from place to place, eygpt and indus had few slaves, mesoptamium highly millitaried greek Athens romans employed more slaves than Chinese or indian slaves were not labor children fred not all black |
In what ways have historians tried to explain the origins of partriarchy | the role of a new mre intensive form of agriculture involving the use of animals and women weremore often taking care of the children |
Mesoptamia partriarchy | various wrriten laws to enforce patriarchal familys that offered women protection with the authority of men married women vield prosatutes not veiled |
Eygpt partriarchy | gave women more oppertunaties men and women were legally equal, women can have land, slavesm sign wedding papers, sign for divorce royal women had political power no women veiled |
What ere the sources of state authority in the first civilization | 1) complexity of life in cities required some authroiteys to deal with irrigation systems, deal with conflicts, and to defend the territory |
Mesopotamia political | organized into independent city states ruked by a king most through urbanized area frequent warfare Sumerian city states caused people to flee to the walled citites for protection |
Egypt political | sevral early states and chiefdoms into a unified territory wind helped to sail through nile and have communication,trade and stability, lived in agricultural villages not urban, ruled by pharoh then local nobles |
Mesopotamia environment | grew up in river valleys the tigirs and Euphrates which were unpredictable agriculture caused deforestation, soil erosion decreas in crop yields saltinization of soil |
Egypt Enviroment | grew up dependent on the river valley the nile very predictable, pyramids, stable environment, dikes canals led to saltinization regulated nile flow |
Mesoptamia culture | viewed life in an ugly way because of harsh environment thought gods were bad and afterlife was worse than real life |
Egypt culture | cheerful outlook on life the rebirth of sun and of the river assured a great after life used pyramids to guide the royals to the journey in the land of the west |
what were the reservations of civilization | 1. implied superiorty 2. was a group of ideas in boundires |