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- people that lived during the old stone age. (wore animal skins as clothing + fire for warmth + cooking)
- neanderthals
- family of rulers
- dynasty
- caravans
- groups of people traveling together for safety over long distances
- skilled workers
- artisans
- a stone found in the village of rosette
- rosetta stone
- david
- conquered the village of jeruselm making it the capital and religious center
- abraham
- founder of the hebrew people
- judeo christian ethics
- values first established by the hebrews that contribute greatly to western civilazations
- nebuchadnezzar
- the chldeans conquered most of the fertile crescent
- zoroaster
- changed the religious outlook
- scribes
- clerks
- where different ppl could perform different jobs
- division of labor
- objects including : tools, clothing works of art, weapons, and toys
- artifacts
- the raising of crops for food
- agriculture
- humans as well as earlier humanlike creatures
- hominids
- the shift from food gathering --> food producing
- neolithic agricultural revolution
- foreigners
- hyksos
- arch
- a curved structure over an opening is one of the strongest forms in building
- twelve tribes of israel
- abrahams son who started this tribe
- phoenician alphabet
- alphabet developed by the phoenicians that becane the model for later western alphabets
- a king of upper egypt that united all of egypt into one kingdom
- menes
- barter
- the exchange of one good or service for another
- wanderers
- nomads
- saul
- the first king of this united kingdom
- appeared in europe, which made even better tools and weapons which made them effective hunters and good artists
- cro magnons
- great house, leader
- pharoh
- moses
- led out of slavery by a great leader
- city state
- form of a community
- founds the remains of a hominid skeleton named lucy
- donald johanson
- sargon
- most powerful akkadian king
- hatshepsut
- pharoh frm 1503 bc to 1482 bc
- polytheism
- the belief in many god
- in which little information is given
- limited evidence
- mummification
- the preservation of the body after death to make the afterlife possible
- ppl who lived by hunting animals + gathering food
- hunter gatherers
- money economy
- based on the use of money as a measure of value and a unit of account
- the process of moving water to a certain spot
- irrigation
- found parts of a skeleton dating back to 3.7 million yrs ago
- mary leakey
- ethical monotheism
- emphasized ethics or proper conduct
- the egyptians used it to make paper
- papyrus
- the taming of animals (cattle, goats, sheep, and pigs)
- domestication
- soloman
- under the rule of davids son and successor
- thutmose III
- nrought egypty to height of its power through conquest
- ziggurats
- symerian buildings / temples
- a complex culture that has pp to produce extra fod + people to establish large towns w/ govts + ppl to perform different tasks/work
- civilazation
- hammurabi
- conquered most of the tigris-euphrates valley
- AMenhotyp IV
- tired to bring religious + social change in egypt
- cunieform
- a type of writing (pictographic writing)
- the spread of ideas and other aspects of culture frm one area to another
- cultural diffusion
- the set of beliefs, knowledge, and patterms of living that a group of people develops
- culture
- a form of writing
- hieroglyphics
- ramses II
- was called the great he was very sucessful
- commodities
- goods that have value
- covenant
- solemn agreement
- monotheism
- the belief in one god