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| How would one best describe life in communities prior to the Agricultural Revolution? |
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| Foraging lifestyle that supported only small, nomadic groups of people |
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| Cause of the Agricultural Revolution |
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| Climate change (warming) drove people to abandon foraging in favor of agriculture |
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| The reason why Egypt benefited from its geographic location |
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| Isolation. Being in the desert spared it from major invasions |
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| Rights of ancient Egyptian women: |
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Definition
| could inherit property and divorce their husbands |
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| What class was absent from ancient Egyptian society that was not from later, less isolated societies |
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| A large and powerful middle class (not much long distance trade) |
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| Two most notable developments of ancient Egypt |
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| Hieroglyphics and Papyrus |
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| geographic isolation resulted in major cultural and technological developments coming from within the region (not influenced by diffusion) |
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| The Bantu migration was traced by... |
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Definition
| the spread of iron smelting and language (remember language- bantu language group) |
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| What played the greatest role in initiating widespread sub-saharan trade? |
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Definition
| The domestication of the Camel |
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| How did Egypt change from the Old Kingdom to the Middle Kingdom to the New Kingdom? |
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| Economically motivated expansion |
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