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History Notes
Chapters 1-3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Archaeologists | Study past societies based on the things they have left behind |
| Neolithic | New stone |
| Agriculture | cultivating food |
| Pharaoh | means great house, name for Egyptian kings |
| Sargon | means the true king, conquered Sumerian city states, leader of the Akkadians |
| Theocracy | government where leaders rule by divine authority |
| Mesopotamia | The land between the rivers |
| Ziggurat | stepped tower dedicated to the god of the city |
| Anthropologists | study human life and culture |
| Nomads | follow herds of animals |
| Irrigation | technique used to bring water to crops |
| Mohenjo-Daro | means mound of the dead, one of the largest city settlements in the Indus valley |
| Akkadian Empire | semetic people 2340 BC, ruler was Sargon |
| Rosetta stone | stone containing both hieroglyphics and greek writing, important because it enable translation of hieroglyphics |
| cuneiform | wedge shaped writing |
| Millet | cereal crop |
| Paleolithic | means old stone |
| Hunter-Gatherer | society living off hunting and foraging for seeds and berries |
| Domestication | species becomes accustomed to being cared for by another (like humans raise cattle |
| Fertile crescent | Euphrates and Tigris rivers run through, early civilizations started there, Middle East |
| Sumer | city located in southernM |
| Hieroglyphics | Egyptian writing |
| Babylon | city state in ancient Mesopotamia |
| Loess | in China |
| Mesolithic | middle stone age |
| Neolithic Revolution | 8000 B.C.E. - 4000 B.C.E |
| Citadel | A fortress for protecting a town, sometimes including a castle |
| Menes | Name of the first pharaoh credited for creating the first dynasty |
| Polytheism | Belief in many gods |
| Monotheism | Belief in one god |
| Hammurabi | sixth king of Babylon. He became the first king of the Babylonian Empire, extending Babylon's control over Mesopotamia by winning a series of wars against neighboring kingdoms.[1] Although his empire controlled all of Mesopotamia at the time of his death, |
| Silt | soil deposited at the bottom of a river |
| Five Characteristics of a civilization | Knowledge of Writing, Social Stratification Organized Government with clear political boundaries, Economic Specialization, Conscious development of art and Intellectual Attitudes. |
| four ancient civilizations and the rivers they developed along | Egypt - Nile, China - Huang/Yangtse, Mesopotamia-Tigris/Euphrates, Indus Valley -Indus river |
| Why did Mesopotamia develop as a collection of city-state instead of one united nation? | Decentralized government due to choppy land making for difficult travel |
| Why did Egypt have one united national government | Centralized government due to flat land-easy travel |
| What impact did geography have on ancient civilizations? | (Egypt/Mesoptamian land) Difficult travel results in city-states easy travel results in one government |
| Why was the neolithic revolution important? | switch to the keeping of animals and growing of food - systematic agriculture. |
| First Amendment includes... | Free Speech, Free Press, Freedom of Religion, Petition the government, Right to Assembly... |
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