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World history

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old stone age
Paleolithic stone age
before agriculture
Nomad/hunter gatherer
new stone age
neolithic age
beginnings of agriculture
neolithic revolution
burn fields, makes ashes, ashes make fertile soil
slash and burn farming
control/tame
domestication
advanced cities, specialized workers, complex institutions, record keeping, improved technology
5 characteristics of civilization
wheel, metal hand tools
early inventions
no taxing no money for government
barter
form of writing in mesopotamia
cuneiform
land between rivers- tigris and euphrates
fretile crescent
surrounded by fields own gov much like own country
city-state
ideas or products spread from one culture to another
cultural diffusion
rule based on religious authority
theocracy
markings on animal bones, evolved to writing, pictographic
chinese writing
approval of gods, central chinese government
mandate of heaven
artistic, social, political, religious intellectual, technological, economics
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