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Unit 1

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Neolithic revolution   show
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ancient river valley civilizations   show
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agriculture revolution   show
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big band theory   show
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show taming plants to live in close association to humans  
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domestication of animals   show
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civilizations   show
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show an animal that is used for work  
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show settlement where farming is done  
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job specialization   show
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social stratification   show
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show branch of science concerned with properties of metals and their production  
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bronze age   show
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iron age   show
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irrigation   show
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big geography   show
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show idea that homo sapiens emerged in Africa then migrated to other parts of the world  
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Lucy   show
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show a person belonging to an early stage of civilization  
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hunting and gathering   show
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cuneiform   show
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Sumerians   show
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show the belief in multiple gods and goddesses  
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show The oldest substantial poem that has survived from antiquity, an Assyrian recension dating from the 7th century bc found on clay tablets in the ruins of the Royal Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh, Iraq  
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ziggurat   show
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Quran   show
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city states   show
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the wheel   show
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patriarchy   show
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show strict set of laws  
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show an inhabitant od Babylon or Babylonia  
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social class   show
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show a member of an ancient people who established an empire in Asia Minor and Syria that flourished from circa 1700 to circa 1200 BC  
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show the spreading of something more widely  
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show an inhabitant of Akkad  
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Assyrians   show
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show an inhabitant of Persia  
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cataracts   show
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old kingdom   show
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show period of ancient Egyptian history (circa 2040–1640 bce, 11th-14th dynasty).  
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new kingdom   show
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show an inhabitant of Nubia  
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show policy of expanding territory  
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show a ruler in ancient Egypt  
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Menes   show
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mummification   show
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show pictographic writing particularly used by the Egyptians  
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papyrus   show
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Hyksos   show
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show a stone usually engraved with figures of animals or sometimes with characters for stamping identification on personal property  
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long distance trade   show
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fertility gods   show
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Hinduism   show
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Xia dynasty   show
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Shang dynasty   show
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oracle bones   show
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show a Chinese dynasty that followed the Shang dynasty  
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Mandate of Heaven   show
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show a sovereign ruler of great power and rank, especially one ruling an empire  
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dynastic cycles   show
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show A member of a prehistoric people inhabiting the coast of Veracruz and western Tabasco on the Gulf of Mexico who established what was probably the first Meso-American civilization  
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show a civilization that developed in the northern Andean highlands of Peru.They extended their influence to other civilizations along the coast.  
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show family of languages spoken over the greater part of Europe and Asia as far as northern India.  
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show member of an extensive group of indigenous peoples of central and southern Africa.  
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Hebrew   show
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show a member of a Semitic people inhabiting ancient Phoenicia and its colonies  
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show a group that moves from place to place  
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show the belief that there is only one God  
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Christianity   show
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Islam   show
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animism   show
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show monotheistic religion of the Jews  
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show a monotheistic pre-Islamic religion of ancient Persia founded by Zoroaster  
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Paleolithic rock art   show
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show prehistoric statues of women portrayed with exaggerated attributes  
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show the "golden age" where ancestors were created  
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clovis culture   show
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megafanual extinction   show
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show the last phase of the great human migration that established a human presence in every habitable region on the earth.  
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shamans   show
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show a ritual where a state of altered consciousness is achieved through rhythmic dance  
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san culture   show
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show a federally recognized tribe  
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end of the last ice age   show
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show diet that includes a wide variety of plants and animals  
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show region known as southwest Asia, earliest development of agriculture  
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show ancestor of corn  
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diffusion   show
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Bantu migration   show
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show aboriginals.. continued to live the hunting and gathering way of life for a long time  
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Banpo   show
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show series of technological advancements where people thought of new ideas of how to use their domesticated animals  
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show human society that relies mostly upon their domesticated animals rather than domesticated plants  
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Catalhuyuk   show
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show village based agriculture society that functioned without a formal government  
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show group governed by a chief who typically uses his personality to gain the obedience of his people  
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What has been the major turning points in the pre human phases of big history?   show
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Why has world history achieved an increasingly prominent place in American education in recent decades?   show
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show Out of Africa to the Middle East, and from there, westward into Europe and eastward into Asia  
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How did Austronesian differ from other early patterns of human movement?   show
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show low population density and slow population growth, and hunting and gathering didn't allow the production of surplus  
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show People moved into more environments, different human groups interacted with one another, and the collection of wild grains  
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show occupied a richer and more varied environment  
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What accounts for the emergence of agriculture after countless millennia of human life without it?   show
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In what different ways did the Agricultural Revolution take shape in various parts of the world?   show
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show To much of the earth. Was sometimes resisted because it coexisted with hunting and gathering  
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What was revolutionary about the agriculture revolution?   show
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What different kinds of societies emerged out of the Agricultural Revolution?   show
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How did chiefdoms differ from stateless agricultural village societies?   show
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When and where did the first civilizations emerge?   show
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What accounts for the initial breakthroughs to civilization?   show
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What was the role of cities in the early civilizations?   show
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In what ways was social inequality expressed in early civilizations?   show
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show horticultural societies  
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How did Mesopotamian and Egyptian patriarchy differ from each other?   show
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What were the sources of state authority in the First civilizations?   show
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In what ways did Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilizations differ from each other?   show
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In what ways were Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilizations shaped by their interactions with near and distant neighbors?   show
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Norte Chico   show
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show elaborately planned out cities, bigger than any other civilization. irrigated agriculture provided an economic base and a written language.  
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show took shape in Southern Mexico, based on agriculture. Mother civilization of Mesoamerica  
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show Mesopotamia's largest city with a population of 50,000. center of the city was a ziggurat with a temple on top  
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show flourished on the banks of the Indus River with a population of 40,000. sister city Harappa. Houses of 2-3 stories, indoor plumbing and sewage system underground  
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show laws enforced under Hammurabi's rule over Babylon. first example of written laws  
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patriarchy   show
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rise of the state   show
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Epic of Gilgamesh   show
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show annual flooding helping crops to grow  
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Nubia   show
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Hyksos   show
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show beginning to 10,000 BCE  
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show 10,000 BCE to 3,000 BCE  
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Chapter 3   show
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show from Africa to Eurasia to Australia to the Americas to the Pacific  
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show gods have the final say  
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What understanding of the afterlife does the epic suggest?   show
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What philosophy of life comes across in the Gilgamesh story?   show
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How does the Epic of Gilgamesh portray the gods and their relationship to humankind?   show
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show there were strict laws against this kind of bad behavior  
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show he believed in the goodness of people  
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show he wanted a better world with less evil  
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show it is considered holy  
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show gods are important to their people  
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show the deceased were judged by the gods  
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On what basis are the users of the Negative Confession making their claim for eternal life?   show
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show the decision of the place the person received in the land of the west  
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What might historians learn from this text about the occupational and social structure of Middle Kingdom Egypt?   show
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show they can be a scribe or other administrative position  
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show learning to write was difficult  
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