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Cards in this set: Term foraging socities Definition composed of small groups of peole who traveled from point to point as the climate and availability of plants and animals dictated. Term pastoral socities Definition domestication of animals Term neolithic revolution Definition new stone or agricultural revolution around 3000 b.c.e. Term contrast nomadic vs. agricultural revolution Definition agricultural involved emotional and psychological issues, nomadic was moving around Term what contributes to the development of a civilization Definition specialization of labor is key Term bronze age Definition figured out how to combine copper with tin to create an even harder metal Term city-states Definition made up of an urabn center and the agricultural land around it under its control Term civilzations during 3000 - 2000 bce Definition meospotamia, egypt, india, china, and americas Term meopotamia Definition land bwetween 2 river; tigris and euphrates; sumer, babylon, and persia; known as the fertile crescent Term sumer Definition ur, erech, and kish were major city-states; 3000 b.c.e., southern part of mesopotamia, form of writing called cunneiform to set down laws, treaties, and important social and religious customs; intro of wheel, 12 month calender, a math system based on 60, polytheistic, ziggurats, overthrown by 1700 bce Term babylon Definition akkad; 1700; babylon; code of hammurabi - major n minor offenses, a sense of justice and fairness; kassities and hittes, 1500 iron; assyrians, iron, nineveh, medes and chaldeans, chaldean king rebuilt babylon as a showplace (nebuchadnezzar) Term persian empire Definition 500 bce; from nile to eatern mediterranean though present-day turkey and parts of greece, and eatward though afganistan; great royal road 1,600 miles from persian gulf to the aegean sea Term big accomplishments during agriculural Definition code of hammurabi, and iron; as civilizations were conquered their cultural heritagee, religions,laws, and customs, and technologies were rarely lost Term lydians, phoenicias, hebrews Definition Lydians: coined money, cosistent prices Phoenicias: power naval city-states, alphabet using 22 letters, Hebrews: 1000 bce judaism, monotheistic, gods chosen people Term Egypt Definition soil was rich, nile, predictable unike mesopotamia, old, middle, and new kingdom, during new it reached its helight. 1400 bcc.e from upper nile to palestine n parts of asi minor (800 miles; king meses (b4 old), pharoahs, hieoglyphic, claender, timber and tone, gold and spices, polytheistics, mummification, queen hatsheput, women rights, SS: pharoash, preists, noblesm merchantsn skilled workers, peseants, slaves