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History Chapter1

TermDefinition
Culture Unique way of life
Bronze Metal used to create stronger tools
Neanderthal Early hominids who lived between 200,000 and 30,000 years ago
Neolithic revolution Major change in human life caused by farming
Cuneiform System of writing created by Sumerians around 3000 B.C.
Civilization Culture characterized by cities, workers, institutions, record keeping, and technology
Ur Earliest city in Sumer; Stood on Euphrates river
Homo erectus Hominids; "upright man";first to migrate
Trade Economic activity
Catal Huyuk Located in South-Central Turkey
Loess Fertile deposit of wind blown soil
Fertile Crescent First civilization; arc of rich farmland
Indus Valley Carefully planned cities and plumbing
Pharaoh King of ancient Egypt; considered a god as well as a political and military leader
Hieroglyphics Pictures that were used to represent sounds or ideas
Polytheism Belief in many gods
Dynasty Series of rulers from a single family
Shang Kings that consulted gods by the use of oracle bones
Pictograph Form of writing that used pictures
Hammurabi Developed code of laws
Mesopotamia "Land between rivers"
Hammurabi's code 282 laws that controlled daily life
Monsoon A wind that shifts in directions at certain times of each year
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