World History Final Flashcards
Paleolithic (old stone age)
- Stone, bone, wood tools and weapons - used fire - spoken language - boats - belief in spiritual world - cave paintings - burial of the dead
The Neolithic revolution
When nomads went from wandering to farming
The agricultural revolution
Gender division of labor and family roles Calendars invented to know when to plant, harvest, etc. Woven cloth, pottery, use of animals for plowing, Villages of Catalhuyuk and Jericho Warriors gain prestige because warfare increases
Bronze
First metal to ever be used by people
Smelting
To melt metal, to refine it and extract it from the ore.
Hunter/gatherer
Some one who hunted animals or gathered natural resources to use
Pre-history
Before writing
Domestication
Raising of plants and animals
Catal Huyuk
One of the first villages in the world
Religious culture and practices Of prehistory and Mesopotamia
Prehistory Belief in spiritual world, burial rituals Sumerians - Polytheists, afterlife - Gods controlled everything, especially nature - Gods behaved like people Persians - belief in one God, Ahur-Mazda
Civilization, 5 characteristics
Organized gov., complete religion, job specialization, social classes, writing
Cuneiform
First writing, on clay with symbols representing words
Ziggurat
Large temple, priests and priestesses offer sacrifices on top Called the gods mountain
Fertile Crescent
Region in middle east named for its rich soils Between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
The two rivers
Euphrates and Tigris
Mesopotamia (means in between rivers)
The founding place of Sumer, in between the Tigris and Euphrates
City states
Political unit that includes a city and its surrounding lands and villages
Polytheism
Belief in more than 1 god
Empire
Groups of city states or territories ruled by one person
Theocracy
A government run by religious leaders
Hammurabi
King of Babylon, had all laws written down and coded for the first time in history
Sumerians
People who lived in Sumer (Mesopotamia) First city-states, first written language (cuneiform), Studied astronomy, created 60 minutes in an hour and Wrote The Epic of Gilgamesh
Akkadians
The Akkadians conquered Sumer and built the first empire ever. Ended after its leader, Sargon, dies.
Sargon
Leader of Akkad, conquered neighboring city states of Sumer,made first empire
Chronology of the empires of the Fertile Crescent
Akkadians - first empire Babylonians - Hammurabi (laws) Hittites - iron working, horse drawn chariots Assyrian Warriors - King Aaurbanipal created one of the first libraries ——————–at Nineveh Babylonians - Nebuchadnezzer revives Babylonian Empire Persians - Cyrus the Great & Darius 1st (laws, roads, money economy ————with coins, one God Ahura Mazda)
Gilgamesh
First told in Sumer, describes great Flood that destroyed the world. A collection of tales about Gilgamesh, who may have been a real-life king of the Sumerian city Uruk