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- Name 4 major river vally civilizations
- Tigris &Euphrates (Iraq), Indus (S. Asia), Nile (Egypt), Yellow (China)
- What is Gov't & what 2 things do they do?
- orgnize and regulate human activity; defense & food surplus
- What caused the Neolithic Revolution?
- systematic agriculture lead to food surplus which lead to more people & specialized labor which lead to artisans
- What is religion and what does it have to have?
- explains nature and own exstince; gods are crucial to cummuntiy success
- Name 2 early Neolithic farming villages
- Jericho (Isreal) & Catal Huyuk (Trukey)
- Radio Carbon Dating
- decay rate of C-14, good up for 50,000 years
- Why did civiliations have writing and what did it lead to?
- keep records; lead to creative writing
- Thermoluminesence
- measures light from electrons, good up for 200,000 years
- DNA
- method for dating artifacts
- Social class
- ruling class, artisans, farmers, labrors,