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Theme 1-- civ test Flashcards

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Neolithic revolution

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shift from food gathering to food producing

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nomad/nomadic

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a group of people on the move

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sedentary

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a person who tending to spend much time seated

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fertile crescent

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the boomerang shaped region in the Middle East; the first civilization

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civilization

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a complex culture w 5 characteristics

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5 characteristics of civilization

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advanced cities, specialized worker, complex inst., record keeping, improved tech

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barter

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exchange (goods or services) for other goods or services without using money.

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scribes

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professional record keeper

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locations of the first 4 writings

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Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, MesoAmerica

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cuneiform

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Sumerian/Mesopotamian writing system; a wedge shaped writing system usually on clay tablets

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hieroglyphics

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Egyptian writing system; comes from greek terms hiero and glyph “sacred carving”

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papyrus

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Egyptian paper; grew in marshy delta, written like the alphabet

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glyph

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a Maya character or symbol

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codex

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Maya; a bark/paper book

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Popol Vuh

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a famous mayan book

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Quipu

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Inca; knotted strings that recorded data

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Diego de Landa

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Spanish priest who demanded all of the mayan books to be burned because they were “ devilish”

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Napoleon

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a French military leader; his soldiers found the Rosetta Stone

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The British museum

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a popular history museum that has attracts from all around the world that has artifacts they may or may not have taken

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Rosetta Stone

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a stone that’s now in the British museum engraved with 3 different types of languages greek, hieroglyphics, demotic

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Maya codices

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books that Maya written; later burned by Catholic spanish

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benin bronzes

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group of sculptures that was taken from Nigeria and now in the British museum

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