Chapter 1: Prehistoric Asia Flashcards
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Paleolithic
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Old Stone Age
- The dawn of civilization
- This time is observed as the time of the “first humans”
- Homo sapiens
- Homo erectus
- Development of
- Fire
- Shelters made of caves
- Garments made of furs
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Neolithic
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New Stone Age
- Time period of the development of new and advanced tools
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Yangshao
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“Painted Pottery culture”
- Included intricate designs either in red or black
- This type of pottery was named after the village it was started in
- Lasted as long as 1500 B.C.E.
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Longshan
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“Black Pottery culture”
- The discovery of Longshan indicated that at this time, the people were making larger villages usually dependant on how they were made
- Has no connections to Mesopotamian or Indus pottery
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loess
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- Yellow-gray deposits usually found on cliffsides of either Eastern China or the American Midwest
- wind-laid dust; very easily cultivated
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Yellow River or Huang He
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- A floodplain
- Would later be used as the primary means of transporting goods
- However, the heavy silt made it hard for navigation
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Yangzi River
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- Rice cultivation emerged along this river and would later spread to the coastal regions
- Would also be used to transport goods throughout China
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jiaguwen
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- Type of written language that was written usually on bones
- Pictographic
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Choson
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Old name for Korea
- Supposedly named by a royal refugee
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Jomon
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“Cord-patterned”
- A type of Neolithic culture
- Named after the distinct decorated pottery
- Lived in sunken pit shelters
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Yayoi
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- Ancestors of the people of Korea
- Agricultural neolithic culture
- An advanced society who had a trade system and used advanced technology
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Shang dynasty
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- Combined from the Banpo people and became the first literate, city-building, metal-using civilization
- Linked to the Longshan (Black Pottery culture)
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Animism
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- The belief that every living thing has a soul within itself
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Harappa
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- One of the earliest cities within the Indus Valley
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Mohenjo Daro
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“Place of the dead”
- One of the first major settlements in ancient India that became a center of the Indus Valley Civilization
