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APWH STEARNS EARLY M

CHAPTER 1 EARLY MAN

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Paleolithic Age The Old Stone Age ending in 12,000 b.c.e.; typified by use of crude stone tools and hunting and gathering for subsistence
extended families Consisted of several generations, including the family patriarch's sons and grandsons with their wives and children; typical of Shang China elites
civilization Societies distinguished by reliance on sedentary agriculture, ability to produce food surpluses; and existence of nonfarming elites, as well as merchant and manufacturing groups.
city-state A form of political organization typical of Mesopotamian civilizations; consisted of agricultural hinterlands ruled by an urban-based king.
Neolithic Age The New Stone Age between 8000 and 5000 b.c.e.; period in which adaptation of sedentary agriculture occurred; domestication of plants and animals accomplished.
matrilineal Family descent and inheritance traced through the female line
matrilocal A culture in which young men upon marriage go to live with the brides' families.
nuclear families Consisted of husband and wife, their children, and perhaps a grandmother or orphaned cousin; typical of Chinese peasantry.
Çatal Huyuk Early urban culture based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern southern Turkey; was larger in population than Jericho, had greater degree of social stratification.
pyramids Monumental architecture typical of Old Kingdom Egypt; used as burial sites for pharaohs
patriarchal Societies in which women defer to men; societies run by men and based on the assumption that men naturally directed political, economic, and cultural life.
slash-and-burn farmers A system of cultivation typical of shifting cultivators; forest floors cleared by fire are then planted.
pastoral nomads An intermediate form of ecological adaptation dependent on domesticated animal herds that feed on natural environment; typically more populous than shifting cultivation groups.
pastoralism A nomadic agricultural life-style based on herding domesticated animals; tended to produce independent people capable of challenging sedentary agricultural societies.
Neolithic Revolution The "New Stone Age" between 8,000 & 5,000 BCE; a period in which adaption od sedentary agriculture occurred; domestication of plants & animals accomplished
Mesolithic Age Middle Stone Age, 12,000 to 8,000 BCE;marked by advances in the deliberate crafting of stone & bone tools, boats, plus the early domestication of animals
ziggurats Massive towers usually associated with Mesopotamian temple complexes.
polytheistic The worshipping of more than one god.
Code of Hammurabi It was King Hammurabi that expanded on the idea of a code of laws by developing an extensive code that dealt with every part of daily life.
Nebuchadnezzar Chaldean king that rebuilt Babylon as a showpllace of architecture; he extended his empire throughout the Fertile Crescent.
cuneiform Sumerian writing.
King Menes United the entire Nile River Valley before the Old Kingdom era in Egypt
hieroglyphic Egyptian form of writing consisting of a series of pictures.
pharaoh Egyptian ruler.
Queen Hatshepsut First female ruler of Egypt during the New Kingdom era.
Epic of Gilgamesh The first literary epic in Western civilization; written down c. 2000 b.c.e.; included story of Great Flood.
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