Chapter 3 And 4 Revision Flashcards
What is the meaning of ‘Colonies’?
Countries or regions taken over and controlled by another state.
What is Catal Huyuk?
Probably the world’s first city in modern day Turkey.
Hunter-Gatherers. What are they?
People who live by hunting animals and gathering food in the wild
What is Cuneiform?
A writing system in which lines were drawn as wedge shaped marks
What does Nomadic mean?
Moving form place to placemat rather than living in one settled community
What is Agriculture?
Farming and herding animals
What are Fossils?
Remains of plants or animals in rocks
What is a Palaeontologist?
A scientist who studies fossils
What is a Homo-Ergaster?
The first human-like species to appear in Africa
What are middens?
Coastal refuse heaps that contain evidence of the past.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The area now covered by Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, South East Turkey, Iraq, Israel/Palestine
What is Flint?
A very hard stone, used for tools and for sparks to start fires.
Civilisation like Sumer did not treat all people as equals, explain why?
This is because social classes developed which meant some people were rulers and see people were slaves and workers, and those two groups did not have the same rights.
What was the change we now call the Neolitchic Revolution?
It was the end of a nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle and the beginning of agriculture and living in settled communities. This led to people starting to build big civilisations, using currencies, maths, and writing
Why didn’t Aboriginals have any wars between tribal groups?
Because they were only thing metres tied in their own land and didn’t want or need to possess any more than already had. There original land connects to their Dreamtime Stories.
