Nomadic Lifestyle
moving from one place to another following food sources
What is a nomad?
(starting in 10,000 BCE) a turning point in history
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
Between two rivers
What is Mesopotamia?
religion language/writing
job specialization technology
cities social hierarchy
government
What are the characteristics of a civilization?
a system of writing created in Mesopotamia around 3,000 BCE
What is Cuneiform?
Old Stone Age
What is the Paleolithic Era?
changing a wild plant or animal so it can be grown or raised by humans
What is domestication?
the act of supplying water to land or crops
What is irrigation?
First civilizations appeared
Where is Mesopotamia?
a system for ranking groups of people
What is social hierarchy?
animals
collecting wild vegetables, nuts, and berries
What is the food people in the Paleolithic Era?
intending to last forever
What is permanent?
the technique of creating flat farmland on a hill by digging into the slope
What is terrace farming?
population growth
produce more children
What is food surplus
a new method of addressing a problem
What is innovation?
fishing, hunting, leisure
What is life in the Paleolithic Era?
1. more predictable food source
2. permanent settlements
3. The first civilizations
The effects of the Neolithic Revolution
mud
water
dung
a template
What are mud bricks?
different people performing specific tasks
What is job specialization?
a description of the ancient Egyptian idea of the afterlife and a collection of hymns, spells
What is the Egyptian Book of the Dead?
a small tool used for making holes, usually in leather
What is an awl?
a time or an event in which a significant and lasting change occurs.
What is a "Turning Point"?
They settled near the Yellow River
What is Ancient China?
tortoise shells or cow bones used by spiritual guides in Shang China (1554-1045 BCE) to communicate with ancestors, gods, and to tell the future
What are oracle bones?
a device used in Ancient Egypt that enabled people to transfer water from a river to their fields
What is a shaduf