River Valley Civilizations Flashcards
Nomad
Constantly moving in search of a home
Pre-history
The period before writing has been invented in the period before 5500 years ago
Paleolithic
Old stone age, name because they use so tools, hundred and gathering
Neanderthals
Nomads, use fire for cooking, lived in small groups around 35 to 50
Neolithic
New Stone Age, Producing food, slash and burn
Cultural diffusion
The process by which an idea or technique devising one society spread to another
Independent invention
What a civilization independently produced the material object to do your behavior pattern
Mesopotamia
The land between the Euphrates and Tigris river
Idea grams
Conventioalized sign
Nobles
King and family, priests, officials
Clients
Free, dependent on mobility, worked for land
Patriarchy
Most powerful was held by older men
Who ruled Samarian’s and how
Governments, priest and rules appeals to the gods
Samarian’s role of women
Have freedom, could be priest scribes, many rights
Ziggurat
The center of the city, City Hall managed irrigation