Unit 1 Chapter 1 : From The Origins of Agriculture to the First River-Valley Civilization 800-1500 B.C.E Flashcards
Civilization
The settling of agricultural life and certain political, soc., economic, and technological traits.
Culture
Pattern and action and expression constitute. For example; clothing, tools, craft, values, beliefs, and languages.
History
A development, transmission, and transformation that a cultural practices and events are parts of history.
Stone Age
Started 2 million years lasted till 4000 years ago. The first cultural activity which consist of stone tool making.
Neolithic
New Stone Age. Started 3000 years after the Old Stone. It consist w/ origin of agriculture, followed.
Foragers
Peps that hunted and gather food.
Paleolithic
The Old Stone age. Lasted for 10,000 years ago
Agricultural Revolutions
The central role of food production and signal that the changeover has occurred over time. (Consist of domestication of animals for food)
Holocene
The global warming that ended the Ice Age.
Megaliths
Big stones used for religion
Babylon
Was the most important city in the southern Mesopotamian during the first and second millennial B.E.C
Sumerians
Inhabits of southern Mesopotamia.
Semitic
A family language spoken in parts of western Asia and northern Africa. (The language consist of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Phoenicia.)
City-State
A self- government, urban center, and the agricultural territories it controlled.
Hammurabi
1792- 1750 B.C.E new city in Babylon found by Akkad.
Ziggurart
A multistory, a mud-brick, pyramid shaped tower approached by a ramp and stairs.
Scribe
A administrator or scholar charged by the temple or places with reading or writing task the lives of reconstruct women.
Pharoah
A king of Egypt come form the meaning palace.
Ma’at
A link between peps and God he authorized order or universe.
Pyramid
A series of stone platform stack on top of each other .
Memphis
Today its near Cario at the apex of the Nile data.
Thebes
Far south of Memphis. Supplanted Memphis during the Middle and New Kingdom period.
Hieoglyphics
Earliest form of system that featured picture symbols standing for words, syllables, or individual sounds.
Papyurs
Paper material made from papyrus reed.