Quiz 2 Flashcards
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Paleolithic
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- “Old Stone Age”
- 2 million to 12,000 years ago
- Homo Sapiens-250k Years ago- Present
- 70,000 years ago, a super volcano erupted on the island of Sumatra
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Neolithic Era
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- “New stone Age”
- 12,000 years ago
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Homo Habilis
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- “Handy Man”
- Lived 2.3-1.65 million years ago
- Stone tool maker
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Hominid
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- Bipedal species, walked on 2 feet
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Dreamtime
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- “Time before time”
- When ancient ancestral beings brought into existence of latent possibilities whose work remain in the sun, moon, stars, etc.
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Gobekli Tepe
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- “Potbelly Hill” Dates 12,000 years ago (9,000 BCE)
- Southern-Easter Turkey
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Catalhuyulk (Turkey)
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- 7,500-5,500 BCE
- No public streets, people walked on adjoining rooftops
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Banpo (China)
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- Neolithic Village (Yellow River)
- 7,000 Years Ago
- Kilns and pottery were discovered
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Fertile Crescent
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- Modern day Iraq, Syria, Israel/Palestine, Jordan
- First region to experience agriculture revolution (Neolithic Revolution)
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Sumer
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- Sumer was located between Tigris and Euphrates River in present day Iraq
- Was a collection of city states, shared much of same culture
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Mesopotamia
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- “The cradle of civilization”
- First cities were built by Sumerians or “black-headed people”
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Cuneiform
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- First form of writing which started in the late Sumer (late 4th millennium BCE)
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Epic of Gilgamesh
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- Birth of literature
- Sumerian Oral Story
- Converted to text in 2000 BCE
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Sargon of Akkad
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- Sargon of Akkad conquered Sumer in 2,350 BCE
- Akkad rules Mesopotamia until 2,000 BCE
13
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King Hammurabi
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- Ruled 1792-1750 BCE
- Codified the laws
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Menes
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- Tradition holds that the first Pharaoh was Menes
- Tradition is Menes founded in Memphis
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Hyksos
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- 1674 BCE invaded from southwest Asia and conquered Memphis
- Introduced horse drawn chariots and bronze weapons
- Egyptian resistance started and pushed out by 1550
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Howard Carter
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- (Pharaohs Curse) Disturbing of Pharaohs curse by Howard Carter myth.
- 8 of 58 people died within dozen years
- The first was Lord Carnarvon
