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First Exam Flashcards

1
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Prehistory

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period of time before people invented a system of writing

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What event marked the beginning of the recorded history?

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About 5,000 years ago people in differ net parts of the world began to keep written records

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Archaeologists

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Scientists who find and analyze the physical remains left by early people

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Artifacts

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Objects made by human beings. Examples would be tools, weapons, clothing, jewelry, etc.

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Anthropology

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Study of humans and the societies they create

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Technology

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Refers to the skills and tools people use to meet their basic needs

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Geography

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Study of people, their environments and the resources available to them

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Historians

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People who study history

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Paleolithic Age or Old Stone Age

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Earliest period of human history

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10
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Where did the earliest people live?

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East Africa

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Where did there descendants migrate to?

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North and east into Europe and Asia. Later reaching North and South America, Australia and the islands of the Pacific

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12
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Is the location the descendants migrated to an absolute fact?

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No. It is the best theory we have so far

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13
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Describe The life of Paleolithic people

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  • lived in small hunting groups of about 20 to 30 people
  • Nomadic, depended completely on their environment for survival
  • Adapted to their surroundings and some developed a spoken language
  • faced severe challenges from their environment
  • animism
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When did nomadic hunters learn to farm, and what was this period called?

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11,000 years ago nomadic hunters learned to farm. This change, ushered in the New Stone Age or the Neolithic Age. No one knows exactly when or how people began planting seeds.

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Neolithic Agricultural revolution

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Enabled people to become food producers for the first time

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Why did it lead to a growth in population?

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Led to a growth in population because people could build permanent settlements, which turn into villages, which turn into cities.

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Why did it lead to more interaction among human communities?

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More people had to interact because They had to work cooperatively to clear land and create the water control systems needed for crop production.

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What did they develop?

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A new range of skills and tools

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19
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What led to the emergence of cities?

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5,000 years ago a new stage of development,farming communities

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What are the 8 features of a civilization?

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  • cities
  • well organized central governments
  • complex religions
  • job specialization
  • social classes
  • arts and architecture
  • public works
  • writing
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Specialization

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The development of skills in a specific kind of work.

22
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What was central feature of civilization

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The rise of cities

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What do cities need?

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To maintain a steady food supply, produce large amounts of food and oversee irrigation projects, new forms of government arose

24
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Who had the greatest power?

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At first priests but in time warrior kings emerged as the chief power also.

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Bureaucracies

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A system of managing government through the he departments run by appointed officials

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What were many ancient people?

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Polytheistic, the belief in many gods

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Monotheism

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The belief in one God

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What did city dwellers develop?

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So many new crafts that one person could no longer master all the skills needed to make tools, weapons, or other goods

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What were some of the jobs?

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Some became skilled artisans or skilled craftworkers

30
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How were people ranked?

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People were ranked according to their jobs and such ranking led to the growth of social classes

31
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What reassured people of the power of their government and religion

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Temples and palaces

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What did strong rulers order?

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Vast public works to built such as irrigation systems, roads, bridges, and defensive walls.

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Pictograms

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Simple drawings to show the words represented

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Scribes

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As writing got more complex only specially trained people,scribes, learned to read and write

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Where were scribes educated?

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Scribes were educated in temple schools and kept records for priests, rulers and merchants

36
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City-states

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Is a political unit that include the city and the surrounding lands and villages. As rulers gained more power they conquered territories beyond their cities.

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What happened when rulers conquered many cities and villages?

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Creating the first empires

38
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Empire

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Group of states or territories controlled by one ruler

39
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Primary source

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Eyewitness account

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Secondary source

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Second-hand account

41
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Cultural diffusion

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The exchange of cultural objects and ideas. Not from one person to another but one people to another

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Ziggurats

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A pyramid temple that soared towards the heavens

43
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Cradle of civilization

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The arch
City-states/kings
-cuneiform/writing
-Irrigation
-mathematics
-Medicine
-Ziggurats 
- metalwork
-organized armies
-music
-plow
-sailboat
-wheel
-written laws
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Vizier

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Chief minister

45
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Rosetta stone

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Contained a message in 4 different languages: hieroglyphics, hieroglyphics( in simpler form),Greek was discovered in 1799 but wasn’t deciphered until 1823

46
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Egyptian beliefs

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Polytheistic, animistic religion Amon Ra was the most important God

47
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Judaism

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Major world religion founded by the Hebrews in 1400 BCE which became the first monotheistic religion

48
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Papyrus

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Paper like material made from a plant

49
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Hieroglyphic

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Egyptian writing system

50
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Judaism web

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Torah- holy scripture
Ten Commandments- law 
code
Temple-house of worship
Important days : Passover and rosh hashanah 
sabbath: Saturday
kosher food
temple:house of worship

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