Quizlet Social Studies Chapters 1-4

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  1. 4 types of homonids: Austrolopithecine,Homo Habilis,Homo Erectus,Homo Sapiens
  2. 5 themes of geography: Location,Place,Region,Movement,Human-Enviromental Interaction
  3. 5 traits of civilization: Advanced Technology,Advanced Cities,Record Keeping,Complex Institutions,Specialized workers
  4. 6 big ideas: Government,Geography,Culture,Beleif Sytems, Science and Technology,Economics
  5. 7 countries of Central America: Belize,Costa Rica,El Salvador,Guatamala,Hondouras,Nicuragua,Panama
  6. Anatolia: The peninsula between the Mediterranean and the Black Seas that is now occupied by most of Turkey; also called Asia Minor
  7. Ashurbanipal: An Assyrian king who told people to bring back writings and collected about 20,000 cuniform tablets were now found form him. Made a huge library in Nineveh
  8. Ashurbanipal: The Assyrian king.He collected many writings and many of them were found.
  9. Assyrians: They are the next group to take over the Fertile Crescent after the Sargon.Their king was king Ashurbanipal.They were defeated by the Medes and the Chaldeans.
  10. Chaldeans: The new Babylonians, their king was king Nebuchadnezzar.
  11. city-state: A city and it's nearby farmlands
  12. civilization: A human society with advanced level of development in social and political organization and in the arts and sciences
  13. Code of law: A set of written rules for people to obey
  14. Complex Village: A lot of people,homes,public buildings,religious center,education, and trade
  15. domesticate: To raise or tend an animal or plant to be the use to humans
  16. drought: A period of little rainfall in which it makes it difficult to grow crops
  17. empire: A group of territories and peoples brought together under one supreme leader
  18. Examples of traits: Advanced cities;Kish,Nippur,Ur.Specialized workers;preist,king,artisan.Complex institutions;the temple,army,schools.Record keeping;writing.Advanced technology;irrigation,bronze tools,cuniform,days of week.
  19. exile: Forced removal of one's homeland
  20. Farming started: 8000 B.C.
  21. Fertile Crescent: An area of rich soil in the Middle East, stretching from the Mediterranian Sea through Mesopotamia to the Persian Gulf
  22. Floodplain: Flat land bordering water or lake
  23. geography: the study of earth and its people
  24. government: A system for creating order and providing leadership.
  25. growth of trade: Surpluses lead to the growth of trade because they had extra and they needed something else so they would trade
  26. Hammurabi: The ruler of the Babylonian empire from 1792 to 1750 B.C. and created the first legal laws.
  27. Hammurabi's purpose of his code: He made laws so there is justice.
  28. Hanging Gardens of Babylon: Built by king Nebuchadnezzar, a huge jungle tower.It is one of the seven wonders of the world.
  29. how did Darius unite an empire?: He built the Royal Road.
  30. hunter-gatherers: A person who gathers food and hunts animals and moves when food gets scarce
  31. Irrigation: To dig ditches to water your crops.
  32. justice: Fair treatment of people, in keeping with the law
  33. king: The highest ranking leader of a group
  34. Lucy: The first human, the first human who left remains of her bones. She lived around 3.5 million years ago.
  35. Mesolithic Age: The middle stone age, lasted from 10,000 B.C. to 6000 B.C. when we startedto control fire and develope language.
  36. Mesopotamia: The land between two rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
  37. Migration: To move from one place to another
  38. Neanderthals: (Homo Neanderthalensis) were a extinct species or subspecies ( Homo Sapiens) that lived in the middle Paleolithic Age
  39. Nebuchadnezzar: A Babylonian king who conquered Jerusalem,and built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
  40. Neolithic Age: The new stone age lasted from 8000 to 3000 B.C. and is was the begining of weaving and pottery
  41. Paleolithic Age: The old stone age 2.5 million - 8000 B.C. was known for the use of stone tools
  42. Plow: Was created by the Sumerians in 6000 B.C.
  43. polytheism: the belief in more than one God
  44. province: A subdivision of an empire or country
  45. religeon: The worship of god,gods, or spirits
  46. Royal Road: A road built for the empire which king Darius built and was 1,775 miles long.
  47. Sargon: The first empire,aka the Akkadian empire.Hammurabi was their king.
  48. satraps: the governor of a province in the ancient Persian Empire
  49. silt: fine,fertile soil deposited by a river.
  50. slash and burn: Cutting down vegetation then burning it to create fine soil to grow crops
  51. social class: A group of people with the same parents jobs for example a warrior or farmer
  52. South America: Argentina,Bolivia,Brazil,Chile,Columbia,Ecuador,French Guiana,Guyana,Paraguay,Peru,Surinam,Uruguay,Venezuela
  53. Sumer: An ancient region of southern Mesopotamia which rose around 3300 B.C.
  54. Sumerian writing: cuniform
  55. Surplus: An extra of something.
  56. Technology: the use of one's mind to create what is neaded.
  57. tribute: A payment of money or goods by one ruler to another in order to ensure protection
  58. What makes a Government?: King/Queen,Education,Warriors, People to rule,someone to enforce rules,legal laws,scribes,record keeping
  59. What type of rule did Cyrus have?: toleration
  60. wheel: 3500 B.C.
  61. Who were the Sumer?: They are the first civilization,which rose around 3300 B.C..They created bronze,the week,and writing(cuniform).The Sargon took over after.
  62. Why are there 20 provinces: The land was to big so king Darius had to brake the land up to be organized
  63. ziggurat: An ancient Sumerian or Babylonian temple that rose in steplike levels and was used to observe the stars.It was like a city center