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Unit 1
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Neolithic revolution | hunting & gathering to agriculture |
| lucy | First Human like creature |
| Sue | Largest T-rex found |
| Agricultural revolution | Farming |
| Jericho | City found in Jordon |
| Cata Huyuk | City in south-central turkey |
| Civilization | people and places |
| surplus | excess of something |
| women declience | were women start to become more house workers then gathers. |
| New Guniea | Island north of Australia |
| Artisans | crafts person |
| Architectural Achievement | Achievements of Architectural purposes |
| Metallurgy | Heating metals to shape them |
| Bronze Age | Bronze weapons and implements are used |
| Stone Age | Stone weapons and implements are used |
| Iron Age | Iron weapons and implements are used |
| Indus | River in south Asia |
| Cuneiform Writing | First writing language. |
| Ziggurat | ancient temples in Mesopotamian |
| Epic of Gilgamesh | Mesopotamian poem |
| Uruk | Ancient city in south Iraq |
| Ur | Ancient city on the Euphrates |
| Hammurabi's Code | Babylonian law code |
| Free Man | Person who is free |
| polytheistic | more then one god |
| Hittites | Ancient people who established empire in Aisa |
| Sumerians | language |
| Akkadians | eastern Semitic language |
| Babylonians | People from Babylonia. |
| Assyrians | People from Assyria. |
| Persians | People from Persia. |
| Cataracts | Waterfall |
| Old Kingdom | Time period from 2780–2280 b.c |
| Middle Kingdom | Time period from 2000–1785 b.c. |
| New Kingdom | Time period from 1580–1085 b.c. |
| Pharaoh | Egyptian king |
| Hieroglyphics | Writing using Symbols |
| Papyrus | Form of paper |
| Hatshepsut | a Queen of Egypt |
| Hyksos | people who conquered and ruled Egypt |
| Harappa | village in Pakistan |
| Mohenjo-Daro | archaeological site in Pakistan |
| Fertility Statue/Venus Figures | Figure of a women |
| Vedas | Hindu sacred writings |
| Shang Dynasty | dynasty ruling China from about the 18th to the 12th |
| Oracle Bones | Bones discovered and used in China |
| Zhou Dynasty | dynasty that ruled China from 1046–256 bce |
| Bantu | group of languages of Africa |
| Hebrews | Abraham's descendants |
| Monotheism | one god |
| Phoenicians | People from Phoenicia |
| Animism | The belief that everything posses a soul |
| Hinduism | A religion Found mostly in India |
| Judaism | monotheistic religion |
| Zoroastrianism | Iranian religion |
| Sub-Saharan | place south of Saharan dessert |
| Zoroaster | Persian religious teacher. |
| Paleolithic rock art | Art fund in caves |
| Dreamtime | The time when our first ancestors were created |
| Clovis Culture | Prehistoric Indian culture |
| megafaunal extinction | The extinction of large anaimals |
| Austronesian migrations | expansion of the Austronesian from Asia to Pacific |
| "Original affluent society" | belief that hunter and gathers were the first affluent society |
| Shamans | A person that is able to pass through the spirit world and real world |
| Trance Dance | Swedish pop group |
| Paleolithic settling down | Paleolithic people settle after last ice age |
| San Culture | People living on the edge of the Khalahari desert |
| "insulting the meat" | Culture that used negative remarks about the meat that the hunters brought in |
| Chumash culture | culture that survived in till modern times |
| Brotherhood of the Tomol | A group of people that encouraged the building of Tomols. |
| End of the last Ice Age | After last Ice Age climate is wavy. |
| "broad spectrum diet" | diet of gathering and hunting |
| Fertile Cresent | Earliest home of agriculture. |
| Teosinte | ancestor of maize |
| Diffusion | Spread of techniques without extensive population movement |
| Bantu Migration | movement of Bantu speaking people. |
| People of Australia | People that live in Australia |
| Banpo | Chinese Neolithic village |
| "Secondary products revolution" | The secondary parts of animals (the milk) not the meat |
| Pastoral Society | society that relies on domesticated animals |
| Catalhuyuk | Neolithic site in Turkey |
| Stateless Societies | Village-based societies organized by kinship groups |
| Chiefdom | societal group governed by a chief |
| 800 B.C.E to 600 B.C.E | Technological and Environmental Transformations |
| 600 B.C.E to 600 C.E | Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies |
| 600 C.E to 1450 C.E | Regional and Transregional interactions |
| 1450 C.E to 1750 C.E | Global Interactions |
| 1750 C.E 1900 C.E | Start of Industrial Revolution |
| 1900 C.E to present | begins at WW1 |
| Olmec | "Old Mexico" |
| Prue | South America |
| China | China |
| Egypt | Egypt |
| Indus Rivervalley | Near India |
| Mesapotanium | Pakistan and Afghanistan |
| Norte Chico/Caral | region along the central coast of Peru |
| Indus Valley Civilization | in South Asia near India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan |
| Olmec Civilization | 1st great civilization of Mesoamerica |
| Uruk | ancient city in Southern Iraq |
| Mohenjo Daro/Harappa | Indus River cities |
| Code Of Hammurabi | laws made by Babylonian people |
| Patriachy | organization which male is family head |
| Rise of the state | centralization that took place in the First Civilizations |
| Epic of Gilglamesh | poem from Mesopotamia |
| Egypt: "The gift of the Nile" | good for crops travel water and farming |
| Nubia | civilization to the south of Egypt |
| Hyksos | people who invaded Egypt |
| What Features of civilization, described in Chapter 3, do these documents illustrate | The Epic of Gilgamesh, Hammurabi's code, Difference between Mesopotamian and Egypt |
| What similarities and differences between ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilization can you infer from these documents? How might you account for the differences | Egypt developed a far more complex division of labor and a much greater sense of hierarchy. Mesopotamian had a lot of writing like Hammurabi's Code and the Epic of Gilgamesh. |
| If you nothing about Ancient Mesopotamia, what could you conclude from the Code of Hammurabi about the economy and society of this civilization? How might you you describe the economy of the region? What social groups are mentioned in the code? | If something happens to someone that you were helping out or assisting then you get punished. |
| What can you infer from the Code about the kind of social problems that afflicted ancient Mesopotamian? | Lower classes were treated better then high class men. |
| How did the code seek to realize the aims of Hammurabi as described above? | Hammurabi was a ruler of Babylonian. He wanted to quote "destroy the wicked and evil doers". |
| How is the afterlife of a pharaoh represented in the text? | Pharaohs were buried with there riches and fame they made pyramids and put them in there. They also mummified them |
| What elements of thought and practice from these early pieces of written literature resonate still in the twenty first century? | Express feeling |
| What dimensions of these civilizations' social life and religious thinking are not addressed in these documents? | Spiritual practices such as Shamans, and the belief in one god. |
| What did the statues represent. | They represented thing that the people worshiped . there might be one of a women that is to worship her for her child. |
| What can we learn about the Indus river valley from these visual sources? | The people and different feeling one of a dancing girl and others of animals and people from there culture. |
| What additional kinds of archaeological discoveries would be helpful in furthering our understanding of Hindus River Valley civilization? | i would thinks hobbies they had and what they liked to do. |
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