Vocabulary
Agriculture
What is farming?
the group of people that has power to make laws and important decisions for a community, state, or nation
What is the government?
The time before humans had written documents.
What is prehistory?
"New Stone Age"
What is the Neolithic Era?
Mesopotamia, Indus River Valley, Ancient China, and Ancient Egypt
What are the early river valleys?
A large town
What is a city?
the process of focusing on a specific job
What is job specialization?
About 2 million years ago to about 9000 BCE
What is the Paleolithic Era?
(starting in 10,000 BCE) a turning point in history that changed the way Paleolithic people lived their lives
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
religion, job specialization, cities, government, language/writing systems, technology, and social hierarchy.
What are the characteristics of a civilization?
(3000-2000 BCE) an early river valley civilization established on the Nile River
What is Ancient Egypt?
(3500-1650 BCE) a region in the Middle East between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers where the first early river valley civilizations started
What is Mesopotamia?
People who move from place to place following food
What is a nomad?
the time period from about 9,000 B.C.E. to about 3,000 B.C.E.
What is the Neolithic Era?
An early river valley that was located on the Nile?
What is Ancient Egypt?
system of communication; words, phrases, symbols
What is language?
(3950-1500 BCE) an early river valley civilization established on the Huang He (Yellow) River
What is China?
The Paleolithic people got their food by....
What is hunting and gathering?
The inhabitants of a Neolithic village would have farmed using tools made of ..
What is wood, bone, and stone?
The river valley that means between two rivers
What is Mesopotamia?
(2500-1700 BCE) an early river valley civilization located in the present-day countries of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and India that included the cities Mohenjo-daro and Harappa
What is the Indus River Valley Civilization?
the act of supplying water to land or crops
What is Irrigation?
objects made by humans like tools, buildings, weapons, art, pottery, and clothing that are usually found and studied by archaeologists
What are artifacts?
in modern Turkey, was one of the first places in the world where humans lived in dense settlements.
What is Catal Huyuk?
Led to the development of civilizations
What are food surpluses?