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Terms Chp 1-3
what the title says :)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| civilization | an area of people with developed systems, jobs, trade, and an interest in science and art |
| culture | beliefs, language, clothing, crafts and homes of a group of people that is passed down through the generations |
| history | the development and transformation of culture |
| Stone Age | a period of time from 2 million years ago to 4,000 years ago where many stone tools began to be used |
| Paleolithic Age | (AKA: Old Stone Age) a subdivision of time that began after the Ice Age until 10,000 years ago |
| Neolithic | the period after the Paleolithic age associated with the origins of agriculture |
| foragers | hunting and food gathering people |
| Agricultural Revolution | a changeover from getting food mostly through foraging to raising animals and crops |
| Holocene | era since 9,000 BCE |
| megalith | big stones that, when assembled, seem to be related to religious beliefs |
| Babylon | the most important city in Southern Mesopotamia in the second and first millenia BCE |
| Sumerians | a group of people who created the framework of civilization and the first written record |
| Semitic | a family of languages |
| city-state | a self governing urban center and the agricultural, rural lands it controlled |
| Hammurabi | a strict leader with much military conquest. writer of one of the first law codes |
| scribe | a scholar who wrote things down for recordkeeping, etc |
| ziggurat | a multistory, mudbrick pyramid-shaped tower approached by stairs and ramps that is related to religious beliefs |
| amulet | a charm worn to protect the bearer from evil spirits |
| pharaoh | an egyptian leader |
| ma'at | divinely authorized order of the universe |
| pyramid | a series of stone platforms laid on top of one another used as tombs to bury kings |
| Memphis | a central position of power during the Old Kingdom period near today's Cairo, Egypt |
| Thebes | a central position of power during the Middle & New Kingdom periods |
| hieroglyphics | a system of writing including many symbols of words, phrases, and syllables |
| papyrus | a paper made in ancient Egypt, used for documents |
| mummy | a preserved body wrapped in linen |
| Harappa & Mohenjo-Daro | two of the biggest and most highly excavated cities in the Indus River Valley |
| loess | yellowish-brown dust that gives the Yellow River its hue and name |
| Shang | clans that ruled early China from 1750 BCE to 1027 BCE around the Yellow River |
| divination | the effort to interpret phenomena in the natural world as the signs of the gods' will and intentions for the people |
| Zhou | ruled 1027 to 221 BCE as the longest lasting and most revered dynasty of kings in Chinese history |
| Mandate of Heaven | the rule of the king in China who was the 'son' of Heaven (a chief deity) |
| Legalism | a belief system that maintained that human nature was wicked and that they would only behave orderly if under harsh laws |
| Confucianism | a belief system based on Confucius's thoughts, in which both the family and the state are hierarchies and people are taught to respect one another |
| Daoism | a belief system started by Laozi thats main goal was to follow and understand the natural "path" |
| yin/yang | the complementary nature of male and female roles in the natural order |
| Minoan | 2000 BCE - the first European civilization with complex social and political aspects in Southern Greece |
| Mycenae | a civilization in southern greece |
| shaft graves | graves at the base of deep rectangular shafts |
| linear B | script written with pictoral signs to represent syllables (an early form of greek) |
| Neo-Assyrian Empire | the first empire to rule over far-flung lands and diverse people; the largest empire of its time |
| mass deportation | forcible uprooting of entire communities and uprooting them elsewhere |
| Library of Ashurbanipal | library located in a palace with 2500+ tablets; AKA: House of Knowledge, located in the Neo-Assyrian Empire |
| Phoenicians | a major group of people in the population of Ancient Syria-Palestine; they called themselves Canaanites |
| Carthage | a large and diverse Phoenician colony founded in 814 BCE |
| Neo-Babylonian Kingdom | in power from 626 to 539 BCE; a kingdom that underwent cultural renaissance after it took over most of Assyria |
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