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Brook WHAP
Rachel's WHAP Vocab. Stack
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| primate | A member of the ape family characterized by refined development of the hands and feet, a shortened snout, and a large brain. |
| Mesolithic | After the last ice age, 14,000 yrs. ago, man developed more rapidly: better tools, construction of rafts, dugouts = better fishing, pottery, baskets, domesticated animals, wars began |
| Mesopotamia | the first civilization started in the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in the Middle East. |
| Hammurabi | Important ruler of the Babylonians who is credited with codifying laws. |
| River Valley Civilizations | Civilizations that flourished in major river valleys because there was water for drinking, crops, transportation and fertile soil. (Tigris/Euphrates, Nile, Indus River, Huanghe (Yellow River) in China. Seats of civilization: language, monuments, math, inf |
| Paleolithic Age | Most of the 2 million years that humans have been on earth. Primitive man until about 12,000 yrs. ago. Characterized by crude stone tools and subsistence hunting and gathering. Development of religion, language and migration |
| Homo erectus | an more erect standing hominid that fashioned tools, used fire and spread out of Africa 750.000 yrs. ago to Europe and Asia. |
| Homo sapiens sapiens | The human species that emerged through survival of the fittest at the end of the Paleolithic Period |
| Metal Age | Bronze Age to date (iron age) Use of metal to make tools, weapons, |
| migration | The movement of a people from one place to another due to environmental pressures. |
| Bronze Age | metal tools and farm implements replaced stone ones, 4000 B.C.E. |
| Slash and burn agriculture | Forest floor cleared/burned to make room for crops that will diminish over a few years necessitating the people to abandon the fields and move on to slash and burn another part of the forest. (shifting cultivators) |
| Catal Huyuk Catal Huyuk | Neolithic village in southern Turkey much studied by archeologists. (7000 B.C.E.) Houses made of mud bricks, wood frames, Religious artifacts Produced all their own goods, some trading with nomads, artisans and politicians developed. (i.e. civilization) |
| civilization | 1. societies with enough economic surplus to form divisions of labor and a social hierarchy involving significant inequalities. 2. emergence of formal political organization as opposed to family ties or tribal ties. |
| nomads | cattle and sheep herding societies found on the fringes of civilized societies. (called barbarians by civilized people) |
| ideographic symbols | Pictographic symbols strung together to express a concept. The beginning of writing. |
| Kush (kingdom of) | African state on the upper part (southern part) of the Nile that conquered Egypt and ruled for several centuries. Egyptian culture had an effect on the conquering African peoples of Sudan and Kush |
| Semitic peoples | People who speak a variation of an ancient language of Middle Eastern origin, such as Hebrew, Arabic, Babylonian, Aramaic, Egyptian, etc. |
| ziggurats | Massive towers that were a part of Mesopotamian temple complexes. |
| Neolithic Age | 8000 B.C.E - 3000 B.C.E. Rise of agriculture, domesticated animals, metal tools, woodworking, herding cultures, and less nomadic Study of weather and climate, |
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