Lesson 6 Flashcards
Greek words “” means “new”
“” means “stone”
Neo and Lithic
is the cultural era where people employed
polished stone.
Neolithic Age
is the background from which civilization
appears.
Neolithic culture
Invention of agriculture
“food-gathering revolution”
One oldest excavated towns thrived- the town of_
_ was believed to have been destroyed by an
earthquake.
Jericho
First ones to make cloth from linen and their houses
were painted with vultures and headless men and
decorated with plaster bulls’ head and statuettes of
mother goddesses
Copper Age
They discovered_, which helped them in their trade with
other towns
Sailing
In this age, The Dynasty of kingdoms ruled in Egypt, where the king was the most powerful person and was even regarded as Horus or the god of the sun. It was not until 1554 BCE that Egyptian kings were
reduced to a more human persona and honored as pharaohs.
Everything in Egypt was under the pharaoh’s control.
Bronze Age
They also introduced the purple dye, the first dye in
history, to their trade partners. In the northwestern
part of Mesopotamia, the city of Rome was born
Iron Age
Cultural developments led to the discovery of iron in
Europe. The Hittites refined iron ore to create
Iron Age
In this system, the people (the
democrats) held the power in governing their land.
Democratization Age
They have clarified the regularity of cultural evolution by pointing out that cultures change in two fundamentally different ways-
Marshall Sahlins and Elman Service
People were allowed to govern, however, they still
elected 10 leaders (one from each tribe) who would
exercise full responsibility for the state’s accounts.
Democratization
First recorded form of writing(cuneiform), Egyptians (hieroglyphs)
Bronze Age
is a long process of improving humans’
everyday living through innovation, discovery, enhancing
routines, and creating mechanisms to harmonize and
harness the fullest potentials of their fellow human
beings
Humanization
