Stone Age Flashcards
A relatively high level of cultural and technological development at which writing and the keeping of written records is attained
Civilization
(Pre 7000)
Hunter/nomadic
Stone Age
Domestication of animals
Paleolithic
(7000-3000 BC) Transformed human society Upgraded stone tools Domestication of plants and gardening Created cities
Neolithic Revolution
Created cities and got rid of nomadic groups
Domestication of plants and animals
Formed because of domestication of plants and gardening
Cities
Evidence found that it had been occupied since 9000 BC
Pop 9000
First walled city
Jericho
Appeared in 6000
10000 pop
Example of upgraded stone tools
Catal Huyuk
Specialization of Labor causes
1) crafts such as pottery and weaving
2) political centralization
3) religious hierarchies
4( military tech and professional soldiers
5) long distance trade
Fertile Crescent
Mesopotamia
Nile
Tigris
Euphrates
Land between the rivers
Mesopotamia
Writing of sumerians
First writing system
3500 BC
Cuneiform
First piece of literature in all of history based off of an actual king with same bame
Epic of Gilgamesh
First empire builder
Conquered cities of Sumer
2350 BC
Sargon of Akkad
Code of law of the babylonians
Inscribed on a giant pillar
Claims divine mandate received from gods
Hammurabi’s Code