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Paleolithic

Old Stone Age 200,000-10,000 BC

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Neolithic

New Stone Age 10,000-4,000

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Neolithic Revolution

10,000-4,000 BC 

Domestication of animals 

Fertile Crescent has optimal soil, weather, temp, wild animals→ EU had an easier time

  • Changes in daily life 

Food surplus→Sedentary life

  • Specialization of craft 

Not everyone has to be a farmer 

  • Patriarchy begins 

Need more people → women are home more having babies

Need more resources → men are out more 

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hunter-gatherers

People who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts to survive

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Polytheism

Belief in many gods

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Mesopotamia

A region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that developed the first urban societies. 4,000-1,000

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Early Near East

early civilizations in the middle east

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Assyrians

decedents of the sumer-akkaidians

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Persian Empire

Mesopotamian empire that conquered the existing Median, Lydian, and Babylonian empires, as well as Egypt and many others. Also known as the Achaemenid Empire.

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Hebrews

A smaller early civilization whose development of a monotheistic faith that provided the foundation of modern Judaism, Christianity, and Islam assured them a significant place in world history

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Egypt

This early empire has its home along Africa's longest river, with a detailed form of writing.

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Hatshepsut

First female pharaoh who expanded Egypt through trade

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Rossetta Stone

a huge stone slab inscribed with hieroglyphics, Greek, and a later form of Egyptian that allowed historians to understand Egyptian writing.

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Cuneiform

A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge shaped stylus and clay tablets.

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Heiroglyphics

ancient Egyptian writing system using picture symbols for ideas or sounds

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Hammurabi

Babylonian king who codified the laws of Sumer and Mesopotamia (died 1750 BC)

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Pharaoh

A ruler of ancient Egypt

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Monotheism

Belief in one God

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Minoan

Prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete in the second millennium B.C.E. Exerted powerful cultural influences on the early Greeks.

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Mycenaeans

a group of people who settled on the Greek mainland around 2000 B.C.; leading city called Mycenae which could withstand any attack; nobles lived in splendor; these people invaded many surrounding kingdoms

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Homer

A Greek poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey

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Hesoid

Greek author who wrote a book called Theogony; it created the story of mythology

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Sappho

Greek poet, she was one of the most famous lyric poets of Greece.

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oral composition

composition of poetry without aid of writing for oral delivery; the work is in effect recomposed each time it is performed; Homer's poems are thought to be this type of composition

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linear b

syllabic script that was used for writing Mycenaean Greek, the earliest attested form of Greek. The script predates the Greek alphabet by several centuries.

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Sea Peoples

Unknown group of strong warriors who crushed the Hittites and destroyed cities in southwest Asia, who fought the Egyptians for 50 years.

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Iliad

a Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the siege of Troy

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Odyssey

a long, adventurous journey

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