River Valley Civilizations Flashcards

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Nomad

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Constantly moving in search of a home

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Pre-history

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The period before writing has been invented in the period before 5500 years ago

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Paleolithic

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Old stone age, name because they use so tools, hundred and gathering

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Neanderthals

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Nomads, use fire for cooking, lived in small groups around 35 to 50

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Neolithic

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New Stone Age, Producing food, slash and burn

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Cultural diffusion

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The process by which an idea or technique devising one society spread to another

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Independent invention

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What a civilization independently produced the material object to do your behavior pattern

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Mesopotamia

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The land between the Euphrates and Tigris river

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Idea grams

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Conventioalized sign

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Nobles

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King and family, priests, officials

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Clients

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Free, dependent on mobility, worked for land

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Patriarchy

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Most powerful was held by older men

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Who ruled Samarian’s and how

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Governments, priest and rules appeals to the gods

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Samarian’s role of women

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Have freedom, could be priest scribes, many rights

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Ziggurat

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The center of the city, City Hall managed irrigation

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Religion of summer

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Look at God’s people, do what people do, offered sacrifices

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Hammurabi

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He made his kingdom secure unified Mesopotamia and joy and urban kingship and tribal

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Hammurabi’s code

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Laws that affect the community Belize and what was valued

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Abraham

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Chosen by God to be the father of the Hebrew people

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Moses

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Lead Hebrews out of slavery

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Hebrew law

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The 10 Commandments, social religious behavior

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King Solomon

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Powerful of kings

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The Nile River

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Seasonally floods, harvested papyrus along bank

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Hieroglyphics

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Rosetta Stone, enabled scholars to decipher hieroglyphics

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Who is the most powerful God in Egypt

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Amon

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Pyramids

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Tomb for God

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Mummification

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Wrapped the money into strips of linen placed an order at coffin inside the burial chambers

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Indus River Valley

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Stretches 1700 miles carries water for irrigation, two major cities mohenjo and Harappa

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Huang he Rivervalley

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Fertile soil but dangerous floods, where the oldest Capital Cities

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Mandate of heaven

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The way they view their authority and how it’s past

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Dynastic cycle

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Replacement of the dynasties

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Di

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The supreme God

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Oracle bones

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Turtle shells or animal bones to write on for questions they had for the gods