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6th Grade World Cultures Chapter 1 First Civilizations
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History
6th Grade
08/16/2011

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Paleolithic
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Old Stone Age; when people were hunter-gatherers and nomads
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Gilgamesh
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help of an epic poem who travels around the world performing great deeds
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empire
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group of many different lands under one ruler
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Nebuchadnezzar
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Chaldean king who built the Hanging Gardens to please his wife
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Jericho
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one of the oldest known cities
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Mesopotamia
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area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, known as the "cradle of civilization"
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artifacts
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things made by humans long ago
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Ninevah
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site of one of the world's first libraries
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artisans
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skilled workers who made metal products, cloth, or pottery
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Hammurabi
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wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life.
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cuneiform
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Sumerian writing system; a system of wedge shaped marks cut into damp clay tablets
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Babylon
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the center of the Chaldean empire
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historians
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people who study and write about the human past are called
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caravan
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traveling group of merchants
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epic
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long poem that tells the story of a hero
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civilization
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complex society with organized government, art, religion, class divisions, and writing system
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technology
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tools and methods to help humans perform taks; it began with Paleolithic people
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anthropologists
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focus on human society and how humans developed and related to each other
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domesticate
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tame animals and plant for human use
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specialization
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development of different types of jobs
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Sumer
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earliest known civilization; between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers; in present-day Iraq
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