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| a person who regularly moves from place to place |
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| system of principles or rules |
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| ways of life shared by members of a group |
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| a long poem that tells legendary or heroic deeds |
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| group of territories or nations under a single ruler or government |
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| focus on human society, they study how humans developed and how they related to one another. |
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| to tame animals and plants for human use |
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| Sumerian system of writing made up of wedge-shaped markings |
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| the time before people developed writing |
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| means old stone. Began 2.5 million years ago and lasted until 8000 B.C. |
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| some one who hunts and gatherers for there food supply |
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| long periods of extreme cold |
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| to move to a place to follow game or to get a way from a type of weather or something |
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| people began to heard animal instead of killing them or domesticating them |
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| people learned how to make villages and started to claim land for their farms |
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| growing more food than needed |
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| people held different rakes on society depending on what work they did and on how much wealth or power they had |
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| grand temple, mountain of god |
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| the art or science of designing and building structures and ones that can be lived in |
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| belief in or worship of more than one god |
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| the amount more than what is required or necessary |
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| an isthmus or wider land connection between separate areas which allows animals and plants to cross over and colonize new lands |
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| tasks and roles intended to increase productivity of labor |
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| how to use A.D. and B.C. as well as counting centuries |
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| you use B.C. by every year the number value gets lower and in A.D it is like regular counting and gets larger every year |
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| based on the primary source or stories told about the event |
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| adapt to survive the ice age? |
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| change diet, built sturdier shelters used animal furs to make warmer clothing and mastered fire |
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| to move and go where food was abundant and go where weather was tolerable. |
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| differences between the three time periods/ eras |
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Neolithic Era- farmed
Paleolithic Era- old stone and started 2.5 billion years ago and ended 8000 B.C.
Mesolithic Era- domesticated animals and live stock |
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| discovered Lucy, the oldest fossil 3.2 million years old. |
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| found the oldest human ancestor also found 3 human skulls 160 thousand years old homo sapien |
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| found out that humans started in Africa 2 million years ago |
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| made hunting, gathering, building shelter and making clothing much easier |
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| reasons people began new settlements along rivers |
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| Because fresh fish available and fresh water and trade was easier. |
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| Oldest Neolithic communities |
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| Contributions of the Assyrians |
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| literature and they erected large temples and palaces |
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| Contributions of the Chaldeans |
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| built important landmarks in Babylon and developed the first calendar with a 7 day week |
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| King of the Akkadians. He conquered all of Mesopotamia creating the worlds first empire |
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| King that built his own empire. Made Babylon the capital of their empire. |
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| King who travels around the world with a friend and performs great deeds |
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| characteristics of a civilization |
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| cities, division of labor, class division, government, art religion and a writing system |
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