Chapter 1

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Are objects that people in the past made or used, such as coins, pottery, and tools.

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Artifacts

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Refers to a society knowledge, art, beliefs, customs, and values.

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Culture

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This term refers to humans and early humanlike beings that walked upright.

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Hominid

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Found a hominid fossil in olduvai gorge, located in Tanzania.

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Louis Leakey

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Or old Stone Age, it lasted from around 2.5 million years ago to around 10,000 years ago.

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Paleolithic Era

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Moving from place to place as they followed migrating animal herds.

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Nomads

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Hunting, fishing, and gathering wild plants, berries, nuts, and other foods.

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Hunter-gatherers

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The belief that all things in nature have spirits.

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Animism

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Or New Stone Age

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Neolithic Era

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Historians refer to the shift of farming as the

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Neolithic Revolution

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The selective breeding of plants and animals to make them more useful to humans

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Domestication

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People who ranged over wide areas and kept herds of livestock on witch they depend for food and other items

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Pastoralists

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Huge stones, for burial or spiritual purposes

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Megaliths

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The Stone Age gave way to the time period that scientists call

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Bronze Age

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Excess, of food

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Surplus

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The economic arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job is called

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Division of labor

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Economic decision are made based on custom, tradition, or ritual

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Traditional economy

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A complex and organized society

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Civilization

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Skilled craftspeople, devoted their time to crafts such as basketry, carpentry, metalwork, or pottery

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Artisans

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The spread of ideas, beliefs, customs, and technology from one culture to another

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Cultural diffusion

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Curves between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian gulf.

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Fertile Crescent

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Greek for “between the rivers”

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Mesopotamia

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A pyramid shaped structure called

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Ziggurat

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A political unit with its own government

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City-state

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The worship of many gods

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Polytheism

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Is a series of rulers from one family

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Dynasty

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Sumerian writing is called

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Cuneiform

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Story of a legendary king

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Epic of Gilgamesh

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Created a permanent army, the first ruler to do so

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Sargon I

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The Amorite king became king of Babylon

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Hammurabi

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Several tribes who spoke related languages

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Indo-Europeans

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Or arid grasslands, north of the Black Sea, driven out by drought, conflict, or a lack of resources.

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Steppes

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The most famous Chaldean king, was known as both a warrior and as a builder

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Nebuchadnezzar II

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Originally nomadic pastoralists, they moved into the desert grassland around the Fertile Crescent between 2000 and 1500 BC.

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Judaism

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The most sacred text of Judaism

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Torah

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A shepherd, he lived near Ur in Mesopotamia

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Abraham

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Solemn promise

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Covenant

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Or ancestral "fathers"

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Patriarchs

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Born Israelite raised Egyptian

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Moses

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Moses led Israelites out of Egypt

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Exodus

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The scattering of the Jews outside Judah

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Diaspora

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The belief in one god

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Monotheism

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A leader that arose in 559BC in Persia

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Cyrus the grate

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Governed a region in Persia for the king

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Satraps

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Son of Darius I, tried to expand on his fathers success

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Xerxes

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New religion based on a man named Zoroaster

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Zoroastrianism

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The belief that the world is controlled by two opposing forces, good and evil

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Dualism

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Is an area at the mouth of the river, often triangle shaped, made up of silt deposits

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Delta

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Rocky stretches marked by swift currents and rapids

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Cataracts

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Ruler from upper Egypt conquered the north at least in legend

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Menes

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At the head of government was the king, who eventually became known as _______________(means "great house")

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Pharaoh

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A state ruled by religious figures

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Theocracy

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A highly structured organization managed by officials

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Bureaucracy

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Encouraged trade, one of the few women to rule Egypt

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Hatshepsut

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Led his army out to confront the Hittites

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Ramses the grate

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Tall, thin pillars with pyramid shaped tops

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Obelisk

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The makeing of mummies

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Mummification

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Uses picture symbols to represent objects, sounds, and ideas was one of the worlds first writing system

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Hieroglyphics

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Is a long passages in ancient writing

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Rosetta Stone

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Granted pardons in exchange for favors

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Piankhi

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Refine iron from its ore

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Smelt