History Vocab for Finals
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- Paleolithic Age
- Earlier and longer part of the Stone Age, called the Old Stone Age. From 2.5 million to 8000 B.C
- Neolitic Age
- The New Stone Age, 8000 B.C to 3000 B.C
- Agricultural Revolution
- The major change in human life caused by teh beginnings of farming - that is, by people's shift from food gathering to food producing.
- Civilization
- A complex culture with 5 characteristics(1)advanced cities(2)specilized workers(3)complex institutions(4)record keeping(5)advanced technology.
- Culture
- People's unique way of life
- Mesopotamia
- An ancient region of southwest Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in modern day Iraq.
- Fertile Crescent
- Regions curved shape and the richness of its land
- City - State
- Each city and its surrounding lands, like a small country
- Cultural diffusion
- Process of a new idea or a product spreading from one culture to another
- Polytheism
- Believing in more than 1 god
- Empire
- Several peoples, nations, or previously independent states under the control of 1 ruler
- Hammurabi
- Ruler of Babylon from 1792 - 1750 B.C who created the first code
- Pharaoh
- Egyptian god - king
- Sumer
- Ancinet country of S. Mesopotamia that flourished in p9ower over surrounding areas. Invented the cuneiform
- Persia
- Present day Iran, soft, had horses and other cattle.