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Understanding Our Past/The Neolithic Revolution
Beginnings of Civilization
Invaders, Traders, and Empire Builders
Civilizations
Wild Card
100
The study of past people and cultures through their material remains.
What is archaeology?
100
Belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?
100
He had artisans carve nearly 300 laws on a stone pillar for all to see.
Who was Hammurabi?
100
Egyptian system of writing.
What is hieroglyphics?
100
Civilization that survived on the Fertile Crescent, the area of land surrounding the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
200
Prehistory is defined as the period of time before this was invented.
What is writing?
200
Skilled craftsman.
What is an artisan?
200
Built the first empire known to history in the area we refer to as Mesopotamia.
Who was Sargon of Akkad?
200
Each Sumerian city-state had a distinct one of these, a system of ranking groups.
What is a social hierarchy?
200
Flat, black stone that had Egyptian passages written on it in hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
300
The period from about 10,000bc until the end of prehistory.
What is the New Stone Age or Neolithic Period?
300
Simple drawings that look like the objects they represent, the first step toward developing writing.
What are pictographs or pictograms?
300
Group of people who removed iron from ore to create stronger weapons.
Who were the Hittites?
300
First civilization in the China region.
What is the Shang Dynasty?
300
They developed the alphabet we use today.
Who were the Phoenicians?
400
The transition from nomadic life to settled farming.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
400
Three basic features of civilization.
What are: Cities, Complex religions, Government, Job specialization, Public works, Writing, Art and architecture, Social classes?
400
Created the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Who was Nebuchadnezzar?
400
This civilization originated the concept of zero and developed the decimal system.
What is the Indus civilization?
400
Government that is run by religion.
What is a theocracy?
500
The belief that the world is full of spirits and forces that might reside in animals.
What is animism?
500
The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another.
What is cultural diffusion?
500
Adopted laws of those he conquered, set up a common set of weights and measures to promote trade.
What was Darius/the Persian Empire?
500
Sumerian system of writing
What is a cuneiform?
500
Credited with the creation of the first library of the ancient world.
Who was Assurbanipal/Assyrian Empire?