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History 1010
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09/09/2013

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Paleolithic Age
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Second part of the stone age about 750,00 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC
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Neolithic Revolution
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Is the first agricultural revolution--the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture and settlement
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Hunters & Gatherers
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A hunter-gatherer society is one whose primary subsistence method involves the direct procurement of edible plants and animals from the wild
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Sumer
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A civilization in southern Mesopotamia with 12 self-governed major cities.
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cuneiform
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"Wedge Shaped" writing devolved from ideograms.
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Hammurabi
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The first king of the Babylon Empire.
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Ziggurat
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They were the biggest buildings and looked like stepped pyramids.
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polytheistic
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Worshipping or believing in more than one god
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Anthropomorphic
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relating to or characterized
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Pharaoh
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A ruler in ancient Egypt.
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