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Artifact

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Human-made objects, such as tools and jewelry. They hint at how people dressed, worked, and worshipped.

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Culture

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people’s unique way of life; learned through media, family, friends, government, religious institutions, school, and workplace

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Paleolithic Age

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• lasted from 2.5 million to 8000 b.c.
• it was the earlier and longer part of the Stone Age
• also known as the Old Stone Age

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Neolithic Age

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• lasted from 8000 b.c. to 3000 b.c.

- people learned to polish stone tools, make pottery, grow crops, and raise animals

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Technology

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ways of applying knowledge, tools, and inventions to meet their needs

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Homo sapiens

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the species name for modern humans; means “wise men” because they had much larger brains

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Nomads

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highly mobile people who moved from place to place foraging, or searching, for new sources of food

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Hunter-gatherers

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Nomadic groups whose food supply depends on hunting animals and collecting plant foods

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Neolithic Revolution

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also known as the agricultural revolution; the far-reaching changes in human life resulting from the beginnings of farming

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Slash-and-burn farming

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groups cut trees or grasses and burned them to clear a field

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Domestication

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the taming of animals

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Civilization

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a complex culture with five characteristics: advanced cities, specialized workers, complex institutions, record keeping, advanced technology

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Specialization

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the development of skills in a specific kind of work

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Artisans

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skilled workers who make goods by hand

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Institution

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a long-lasting pattern of organization in a community; and example is government

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Scribes

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professional record keepers

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Cuneiform

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a system of writing invented by Sumerian scribes

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Bronze Age

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the time when people began using bronze to fashion tools and weapons

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Barter

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the way of trading goods and services without money

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Ziggurat

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a massive, tiered, structure that towers of the city off ur

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Fertile Crescent

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the curved shaped and richness of the land of Mesopotamia led people to call it the fertile crescent

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Mesopotamia

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land in the Fertile Crescent facing the Mediterranean Sea and a plain

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City-State

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a city and the surrounding area it controlled

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Dynasty

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a series of rulers from a single family

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Cultural Diffusion

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the process of which a new idea or a product spreads from one culture to another

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Polytheism

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the belief in more than one god

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Empire

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brings together several peoples, nations, or previously independent states under control of one ruler

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Hammurabi

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a ruler who created the first system of laws

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Delta

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a broad, marshy, triangular area of land formed by deposits of silt at the mouth of the river

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Narmer

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the king who united lower and upper Egypt

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Pharaohs

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Egyptians god-kings

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Theocracy

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the type of government in which rule is based on religious authority

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Pyramid

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and immense structure for the resting place after death

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Mummification

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royal and elite Egyptian bodies were preserved by this

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Hieroglyphics

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the earliest form of writing that uses picture to represent each letter

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Papyrus

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Egyptians used these reeds to make a better writing surface. They grew in the marshy delta

Question 37

What are the three major elements that separate the world's "haves" and "have nots"

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Guns, germs, and steel