Unit 1 Flashcards
2 mill years that we have existed
Paleolithic old stone age
Fire tamed
Old stone age
Humanoids species that emerged as most successful at end of paleolithic period
Homo sapiens
B/t 8000 and 5000 bce period in which adaptation of sendentary agriculture occured domestication of animals accomplished (centered around agric
Neolithic age
Succession of technology logical innovations and changes in human organizations that led to the development of agriculture
8500 to3500
4000 BCE when bronze tools were first introduced in the middle east to about 1500 BCE when iron began to replace it
Bronze age
Mesopotamia, egypt, indus river basin, and china
Bronze age
A system of cultivation typical of sniffing cultivators; forest floors cleared by fire are then planted
Slash and burn
8000 to 5000 bce adaptation of sedentary agriculture domestication of plants and animals
Manipulation of tools
Reproduction
New stone age (era)
Consequences of neolithic revolution
Invention of agriculture
Surplus
Metal tools
4000 BCE
From about 400 BCE when bronze tools were first introduced in middle east till 500
Bronze age
Yrban culture based on sedentary agriculture located in modern south turkey
Catal huyuk
Sedentary agriculture and ability to pruduce food surpluses
Civilizations
Cuneiform
Form of writing developed by sumerians (mesopotamians)
Between the rivers civilization arose in the alluvial plain of the tigris and euphrates river valley
Created from scratch
4000 familiar with bronze and copper
Wheel
Pottery industry
Mesopotamia
Arganized area into city states
Summerias
Conqueres by akkadians
Sumerians
Massive towers usually associated with mesopotamian temple complexes
Ziggurats
Formed political organizations typical of mesopotamian civilizations
City state
United all of mesopotamia collapsed due to foreign invasion
Babylonian empire
Responsiple for codeification of law
Hammurabi
Type of kings in egypt
Pharoah
African state along euphrates river conquered egypt for several centuries
Kush
River sources in himilayas to mouth in arabian sea, location of harrapah civilization
Indus river valley
Along w/ mojenho daro, major urban complex of the harappan civilization
Running water
Wheat rye peas rice
Irrigation
Trading
Harappa & mohenjo daro
Rode horses
Yellow river
First chinese dynasty for which archaeological evidence exists located in ordos bulge or huangne
Shang
Priests in chenese society
Oracles
Pictograph characters groyoed together chibese
Ideogroahs
Writing
Made by chinese
Seafaring civilizations located on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean established colonies
22 alphabet
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