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-equality btwn men and women
-traveled and went from place to place
-small bands of people |
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domesticated animals
-stayed in one place more often (would settle down to farm and would leave when land was used up)
-started to cultivize plants
-women had few rights |
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Definition
moved from place to place
-focused on basic needs
-followed their food
-spread of humanity over land bridges |
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Definition
-created increace in population
-decrease in eqaulity
-more specialization of labor
-new technologies and developments
-stayed in one place |
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Term
| What advantages did agriculture possess that allowed it to become the dominent life style? |
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-allowed people to stay in one place
-a constant supply unless weather
-allowed an increase in population
-urbanization
-specialization |
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Mesopotamia
3500 BCE-60 CE
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| P: -city states-divine kings-fighting btwn city states-1st empire uniting all city states-those empires rose and fell quickly |
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Mesopotamia
3500 B.C.E-600 CE
Social structure |
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Definition
S:-kings and priests, landowners and merchants, farmers and slave--divorce rights, could own property, participate in commerce
T:-artificial irrigation-cuneiform (1st writing system)-taught crafts-had education-astronomy/calander |
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Mesopotamia
3500 B.C.E-600 CE
culture/worldview |
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Definition
| C:-polytheists-gods powerful-wind water gods-unstable and mean-valued intellectual achievements |
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Mesopotamia
3500 B.C.E-600 CE
geography |
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Definition
| -btwn tigris and euphrates, known as fertile crescent |
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Term
Egypt
3500 BCE-60 CE
Political |
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Definition
-kingship
-unification of smaller units into a single state
-pharaoh considered god on earth
-bureacracy |
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Term
Egypt
3500 BCE-60 CE
social structure |
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Definition
-variety of races and physical types
-less pronounced social divisions
-kings--peasants (vast majority)
-slavery exsisted on small scale: POWs
-womens status: had rights-could own property-inheritance from parents |
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Egypt
3500 BCE-60 CE
technology |
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Definition
construction of pyramids-used astrology
more self-suffiecient |
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Egypt
3500 BCE-60 CE
Geography |
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Definition
-isolated-land protected by surrounding barriers
-lush vegetation along Nile
-Hot, sunny, climate |
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Indus Valley
2000 BCE-600 CE
political |
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Definition
-society was unified
-politically centralized |
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Term
Indus Valley
2000 BCE-600 CE
social |
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Definition
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Term
Indus Valley
2000 BCE-600 CE
technology |
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Definition
-irrigation
-metal workers
-agriculture surplus essentail to urbanized society
-writing system--signs to represent sylables and words |
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Term
Indus Valley
2000 BCE-600 CE
geography |
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Definition
-fertile flood plane
-floods 2 times a year, other than that very dry
-rivers provided thorough fares for transporting goods
-N.W. India/ Pakistan |
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Term
China: Xia, Shang, Zhou
2000 BCE-600CE
political |
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Definition
Xia: hereditary monarchy
Shang: government based on ritual, heirarchy
Zhou: decentralized-gave power to local lords-mandate of heaven |
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Term
China: Xia, Shang, Zhou
2000 BCE-600CE
Social |
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Definition
Shang: had cultural influence emphasis on social heriarchy
Zhou: local lords- bronze working- bronze sign of wealth |
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Term
China: Xia, Shang, Zhou
2000 BCE-600CE
technology |
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Definition
Xia: ecouraged metalurgy
Shang and Zhou: bronzeworking |
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Term
China: Xia, Shang, Zhou
2000 BCE-600CE
Culture/worldview |
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Definition
xia: once thought to be a myth
shang: oracle bones
zhou: 3 new belief systems emerged
-confucianism
-daoism
-legalism |
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Term
China: Xia, Shang, Zhou
2000 BCE-600CE
geography |
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Definition
by yellow and yongzi rivers
-rivers unpredictable (Chinas sorrow) |
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Term
China: Xia, Shang, Zhou
2000 BCE-600CE
geography |
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Definition
by yellow and yongzi rivers
-rivers unpredictable (Chinas sorrow) |
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Term
Chauvin
900 BCE- 600 CE
political |
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Definition
-agricultural forms showed political integration
-small buildings used for ritual centers
-chiefs were ones who dominated politics |
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Term
Chauvin
900 BCE- 600 CE
social |
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Definition
-reciprocal labor obligations
-people thought of themselves as brothers and sisters |
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Term
Chauvin
900 BCE- 600 CE
technology |
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Definition
-construction of roads, bridges, temples,palaces and large irrigation and drainage projects
-metalurgy |
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Term
Chauvin
900 BCE- 600 CE
culture |
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Definition
-system of rituals
-religion spread over wide area
-Jaguar Diety
-cltural contact with Andan civilizations |
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Term
Chauvin
900 BCE- 600 CE
geography |
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Definition
-cap located in eastern range of andean mtns.
-coastal plane |
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