Early Civilizations
People living together rather than moving around
What is sedentary?
How ideas and traditions were traded
What is migration?
migration, trade, warfare, spread of ideas, customs
What is cultural diffusion?
rituals, priests worshipers prayer for crops and protection
What is organized religion?
The head of the social classes in Ancient Egypt
What is the pharaoh?
The area where civilization first rose because of agriculture
What is the fertile crescent?
Making tools and weapons; hunting and gathering
What is Paleolithic?
burying dead with care; burying tools and supplies with dead
What is belief in an afterlife?
Ancient Egyptians believed he was both god and King
What is the pharaoh?
Traditional use of pyramids
What is burial of pharaoh and high ranking people?
Urbanization; people living in groups
What is Neolithic peoples?
Warmer weather; agriculture
What is Neolithic people?
based on farming, craftsmen, pottery, cloth, before formal introduction of money
What is economy?
Belief in more than one god
What is polytheism?
Ancient Egyptians learned much about human body; performed surgery
What is medicine/medical knowledge?
before writing
What is prehistory?
groups went to war, chiefs or headmen emerged
What are social classes?
What is ritual?
Belief in an _______________had ancient Egyptians making mummies of their dead
What is afterlife?
ruling families; rule handed down to relatives
What are dynasties?
another name for paleolithic and neolithic time period
wheel, fire, plows, tools
What is technology?
preservation of the dead by using salt and wrappings; took up to 70 days
What is mummification?
Belief in only one God
What is monotheism?
Picture writing by the ancient Egyptians
What are hieroglyphics?