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Neolithic Revolution

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Earliest times up until 10,000 BCE. People started inventing tools and lived in a hunter gatherer lifestyle

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Hunter-Gatherers

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Work force/lifestyle that consisted of 20-30 people equally divided with men and women. The men hunted animals while the women searched for fruits, berries, and other edible foods.

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Systematic agriculture

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process of crop cultivation, settling in one place, developed farming

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Domestication

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taming of animals

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6 basic characteristics of civilization

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1)cities

2)government

3)religion

4)social structure

5)art

6)writing

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Fertile Crescent

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an area of rich farmland in Southwest Asia where the first civilizations began

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Mesopotamia

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kingdom created by the babylonians

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Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

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the two rivers that surround Mesopotamia

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Summerians

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city surrounded by walls 6 mi long and 30-35 ft high

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Cuneiform

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wedge shaped system of writing. Made on clay tablets that were baked/dried in the sun

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Akkadians

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n of the summerians. first first empire

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Babylonians

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conquered the sumerians

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Sargon

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ruler of Akkad

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Hammurabi

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Ruler of Babylon

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The code of hammurabi

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282 laws based off a strict code

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City-States

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an independent self governing country contained totally within the boarders of a single city

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Ziggurat

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most important building in a summerian city, dedicated to chief god or goddess of city

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Empire

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A group of states or territories controlled by one ruler

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Polytheistic

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Belief in many gods

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Old kingdom

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2700-2200 bce. People believed if they helped their pharoah they were helping to maintain a stable world order

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Middle kingdom

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2050-1652 bce. Period of expansion

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New kingdom

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1567-1085 bce. Egypt created a new empire and became the most powerful state in SW asia. King tut

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King Menes

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United upper and lower Egypt

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Pyramids

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monumental architecture typical of Old Kingdom Egypt; used as burial sites for pharaohs.

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Pharoahs

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viewed as king gods

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Ra

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Creator of deity, and god of the sun. He gave life to everything and could resurrect people from the dead.

Represented as a man w a falcon head

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Osiris

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God of the underworld

Man dressed as a mummy w green skin

Murdered by his brother seth

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Isis

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God of motherhood

Wife of osiris and mother of horus

Resemble the body of osiris after his murder

Mother and protector of all the pharaohs

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Khnum

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God of creation

Man w the head of a ram

Control the flow than the nile river

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Seth

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God of chaos

Head of an unknown creature

Bro of osiris

Killed or punished by the council of gods

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Horus

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God of the sky

Falcon’s head

Lost his left eye fighting seth

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Anubis

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God of death and mummification

Head of a jackal

Weights hearts if the dead to see if they should go to the underworld

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Nile River

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The river in which early kingdoms in Egypt were centered around

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Nile Delta

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The most fertile area of land in Egypt located end of the Nile River

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Lower Egypt

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The northern part of ancient Egypt

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Upper Egypt

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the southern part of ancient Egypt

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Dynasty

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A series of rulers from the same family

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Anthropomorphism

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the attribution of human form or other characteristics to beings other than humans particularly animals

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Heirogylphics

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Egyptian form of writing using symbols or pictures as characters

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