| Measuring Time | Early Humans | Neolithic Era | Key Characteristics of Civilization | Civilizations | Geography of the Fertile Crescent |
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What is a decade?
Unit of measuring time in groups of ten years.
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What is a hunter-gatherer
the term for people who move from place to place with no permanent home
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What is a rise in Earth's temperature? Or What is the end of the Ice Age?
this change on Earth allowed humans to stay in one place and begin domesticating plants and animals
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What is government?
managing a society's resources so that people get what they need to survive as well as training armies to defend societies
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What is Uruk?
the first recorded city
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What are the Zagros Mountains?
the mountains north of the Fertile Crescent
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What an artifact?
an object made and used by early humans found by archeologists
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What is fire?
This made it possible for early humans to scare off dangerous animals, cook meats, light dark nights, and stay in areas too cold to survive
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What is barter economy?
the exchange of goods and services between two or more parties without the use of money
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What is technology and writing?
early civilizations of tools and record recording
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What is a city-state?
a community that has it's own ruler, government, and laws
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What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
the two rivers found in the Fertile Crescent
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What are before Christ and before common era ?
BC and BCE
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What is a sickle?
a tool created to harvest crops
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What is domestication of animals and plants?
the process of adapting wild plants and animals for human use
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What is religion?
a set of shared beliefs about supernatural powers that were created to explain the world
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What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
the first recorded epic
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What are the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf
the two bodies of water at each end of the Fertile Crescent
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What are Anno Domini and common era?
AD and CE
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What is prehistory?
the period of time before civilization and writing
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What is labor specialization?
humans began to spend most of their time working on a single job or craft
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What is culture?
all the ways of life including arts, beliefs and institutions of a population that are passed down from generation to generation
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What is the Fertile Crescent?
the area of land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf
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What is "the land between two rivers"?
the meaning of "Mesopotamia"
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What is an anthropologist?
a person who studies how humans behave, how they act together, where they came from, and what makes one group of people different from another
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What are tools?
items used for cutting small trees, meat, and to scrape animal skins
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What is the Agricultural Revolution?
the name given to a number of cultural transformations that initially allowed humans to change from a hunting and gathering subsistence to one of agriculture and animal domestications
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What is social class?
groups that occupy different ranks or levels in society
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What are government, religion, culture, social structure, technology, writing, and stable food supply?
the 7 key characteristics of any civilization
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What is the annual flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
this dependable natural event created the fertile agricultural environment in the Fertile Crescent
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What is Sumer?
believed to be the first civilization
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