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Chapters 1-3

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Archaeologists   Study past societies based on the things they have left behind  
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Neolithic   New stone  
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Agriculture   cultivating food  
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Pharaoh   means great house, name for Egyptian kings  
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Sargon   means the true king, conquered Sumerian city states, leader of the Akkadians  
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Theocracy   government where leaders rule by divine authority  
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Mesopotamia   The land between the rivers  
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Ziggurat   stepped tower dedicated to the god of the city  
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Anthropologists   study human life and culture  
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Nomads   follow herds of animals  
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Irrigation   technique used to bring water to crops  
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Mohenjo-Daro   means mound of the dead, one of the largest city settlements in the Indus valley  
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Akkadian Empire   semetic people 2340 BC, ruler was Sargon  
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Rosetta stone   stone containing both hieroglyphics and greek writing, important because it enable translation of hieroglyphics  
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cuneiform   wedge shaped writing  
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Millet   cereal crop  
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Paleolithic   means old stone  
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Hunter-Gatherer   society living off hunting and foraging for seeds and berries  
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Domestication   species becomes accustomed to being cared for by another (like humans raise cattle  
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Fertile crescent   Euphrates and Tigris rivers run through, early civilizations started there, Middle East  
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Sumer   city located in southernM  
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Hieroglyphics   Egyptian writing  
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Babylon   city state in ancient Mesopotamia  
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Loess   in China  
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Mesolithic   middle stone age  
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Neolithic Revolution   8000 B.C.E. - 4000 B.C.E  
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Citadel   A fortress for protecting a town, sometimes including a castle  
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Menes   Name of the first pharaoh credited for creating the first dynasty  
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Polytheism   Belief in many gods  
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Monotheism   Belief in one god  
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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,  
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Silt   soil deposited at the bottom of a river  
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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.  
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four ancient civilizations and the rivers they developed along   Egypt - Nile, China - Huang/Yangtse, Mesopotamia-Tigris/Euphrates, Indus Valley -Indus river  
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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  
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Why did Egypt have one united national government   Centralized government due to flat land-easy travel  
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What impact did geography have on ancient civilizations?   (Egypt/Mesoptamian land) Difficult travel results in city-states easy travel results in one government  
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Why was the neolithic revolution important?   switch to the keeping of animals and growing of food - systematic agriculture.  
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First Amendment includes...   Free Speech, Free Press, Freedom of Religion, Petition the government, Right to Assembly...  
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