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Unit One - First Humans Flashcards

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Stone Age

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  • period of 2.5 million to 5000 years ago
  • kinship-based
  • hunting and gathering
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Neolithic Revolution

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  • 8000 B.C.E.
  • development of metal and stone tools
  • domestication of animals and plants = pastoralism and agriculture
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pastoralism

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branch of agriculture concerned with raising livestock

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agriculture

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the practice of farming

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metallurgy

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the branch of science concerned with studying metals

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civilization

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a sedentary society capable of agricultural production, city-building, and political organization

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first civilizations (four + rivers)

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  • between 3500 and 2000 B.C.E.
  • Mesopotamia (Tigris and Euphrates)
  • Egypt (Nile)
  • Indus Cities: Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa (Indus River)
  • Shang China (Yellow River or Huang He)
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Olmecs

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  • ancient Central American civilization
  • polytheistic
  • large trade network
  • human sacrifice
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Chavin

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  • ancient Andean civilization
  • difficult mountain terrain
  • internal trade
  • polytheistic
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Paleolithic Era

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  • early Stone Age

* hunting and gathering

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Neolithic Era

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  • recent Stone Age

* agriculture and pastoralism

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irrigation

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the artificial application of water to land and soil

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ancestor veneration

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philosophy where it is believed that the dead have a continued presence

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shamanism

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philosophy where shamans act as intermediaries between the dead and the living

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animism

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philosophy where it is believed that all beings have souls

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polytheism

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belief in multiple gods

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cuneiform

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ancient Mesopotamian form of writing and record-keeping

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hieroglyphs

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ancient Egyptian form of writing and record-keeping

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Vedism

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religion of ancient Indo-European peoples

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quipu

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ancient Andean form of record-keeping by the use of knotted strings

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Homer(us)

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Greek author of epic poems and the first known European literature - the Iliad and the Odyssey

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early technologies

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pottery, hoes and plows, textiles, wheels, calendars, metallurgy, horse-riding, chariots, bows and arrows

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monarchy

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rule by a single leader

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oligarchy

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rule by a small elite

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Code of Hammurabi

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Babylonian code of law

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Mandate of Heaven

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belief that rulers are given the right to rule by a higher power, therefore they should be respected as near-divine

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early trade networks

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Egyptian-Nubian, Mesopotamian-Indus, Phoenician

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patriarchy

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male-dominated social structure

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egalitarian

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social structure built on equality

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homo sapiens

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the human species

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Bering land bridge

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connected span of land that allowed peoples to migrate to the Americas

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kinship groups

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clusters of extended family to form bands and tribes

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nomadic

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groups that move to follow game or seasonal patterns

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Mesopotamian groups

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Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Hittites

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ziggurat

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a Mesopotamian temple

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pharoah

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a monarch of Egypt thought to be an incarnation of the sun god

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pictographs

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Chinese system of writing

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feudalism

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a form of leadership in which a weak monarch governs multiple decentralized and militarized political units

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Shang dynasty

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  • first Chinese dynasty
  • led by warrior aristocracy
  • expanded through conquest
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Zhou dynasty

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  • second Chinese dynasty

* feudalistic dynasty

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bureaucracy

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a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives

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Hebrews

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developed first monotheistic religion - Judaism

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Phoenicians

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  • Mediterranean group
  • Syria and Lebanon
  • trade
  • created alphabet
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Hyksos

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people who conquered Egypt

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slavery

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the most common form of forced labor

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indentured servitude / debt slavery

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labor as a form of repayment for a debt

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Zoroastrianism

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  • ancient, monotheistic, Iranian religion
  • founder = Zoroaster
  • belief in cosmic struggle of Ahura Mazda vs. Ahriman
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Judaism

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  • created by Hebrews
  • first monotheistic faith
  • holy text = Torah
  • holy land = Canaan
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dreamtime

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ancient Aboriginal belief that every landform was created for a reason

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San of Southern Africa

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  • egalitarian
  • small, mobile groups
  • ate from the land
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Chumash of Southern California

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  • complex society
  • inequality (chiefs as political leaders)
  • skill specialization
  • ate from the sea
  • currency
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Paleolithic rock art

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cave art during the Paleolithic times

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Venus figurines

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female figurines found in Europe

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Clovis culture

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the first clearly-defined and widespread culture of the Americas

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extinction

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arrival of homo sapiens brings extinction of some plants and animals as well as other hominids (Neanderthals)

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trance dance

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shaman method of reaching the impersonal force running throughout natural order

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“insulting the meat”

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San method of maintaining equality by insulting a hunter’s kills so that he remains modest

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Brotherhood of the Tomol

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a group of Chumash boat builders that invented the tomol (a type of canoe) and formed an elite craft guild

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Norte Chico

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ancient Peruvian society

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Uruk

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ancient city of Sumer

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Epic of Gilgamesh

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Mesopotamian epic poem

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Bantu migration

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spread of the Bantu peoples through Africa

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chiefdom

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societies ruled by chiefs

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Fertile Crescent

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arable region in Southwest Asia (Mesopotamia)

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diffusion

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the spread of something more widely

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Ice Age

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a time of extreme cold that is unsuitable for agriculture

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