 | Term | Definition |
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Paleolithic Age |
"Old Stone Age"; First use of stone tools until about 10,000 B.C.E. |
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Neolithic Age |
"New Stone Age"; About 10,000 years ago marked by advances in the production of stone tools. Shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture |
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Bands |
Basic unit of social organization among foragers, includes fewer than 100 people. Nomadic, small, mobile, kin-based groups with little differential power. Neolocal residence. minimal division of labor and gender stratification. Shamanic religions. Primus entre pares. Example -: Eskimos, Tiwi, Washo, Kung. |
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Neolithic Revolution |
Agricultural Revolution; the major change in human life caused by the beginnings of farming-that is by people's shift from food gathering to food producing |
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Domesicated |
To tame, or to train to be a friend or contributer to society. |
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Tigris and Euphrates River |
The two rivers that housed the fertile cressent and gave ancient peoples water. |
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Mesopotamia |
an ancient region of southwest Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in modern-day Iraq |
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Sumer |
A group of ancient city-states in southern Mesopotamia; the earliest civilization in history. |
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Gilgamesh |
a legendary Sumerian king who was the hero of an epic collection of mythic stories |
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City-State |
a city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside |
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Ziggurat |
a temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories |
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Cuneiform |
an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia |
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Sargon I |
The first emperor of Sumer |
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Hammurabi |
a famous emperor of Mesopotamia. Ruled from 1792-1750B.C. Made a black stone tablet containing 282 laws. One of the first time ever that a code of laws has been presented to the people of the empire. |
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Empire |
a group of countries under a single authority |
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Nile River |
River that runs the entire distance South to North in Egypt. |
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Old Kingdom |
the age of pyramids. when Egypt attained its first continuous peak of civilization complexity and achievement |
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Osiris |
Egyptian god of the underworld and judge of the dead |
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Pharaoh |
the title of the ancient Egyptian kings |
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Pyramids |
Large Egyptian tombs. |
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Embalming |
Proccess to keep dead bodies from decaying. |
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Middle Kingdom |
no more pyramids, pharoh had less power, & they traded with outside countries |
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New Kingdom |
18th-20th dynasties - rulers like Akhenaton, Hatshepsut, Tuthankhamen These rulers were in the 18th dynasty(called the Amarna Period) |
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Thutmose III |
Hatshepsut's stepson; he brought Egypt to the height of its power |
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Hatshepsut |
queen of egypt (1503-1482). after husband's death (Thutmose II), she bestowed the title of pharaoh on herself and adopted all pharaonic customs, including wearing the false beard |
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Hieroglyphic |
Egyptian writing bassed on pictures. |
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Papyrus |
paper made from the papyrus plant by cutting it in strips and pressing it flat |
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Canaan |
the ancient region lying between the Jordan, the Dead Sea, and the Mediterranean: the land promised by God to Abraham |
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