I. Identifications 1. Paleolithic: The period of time also known as the Old Stone Age‚ which lasted until about 10‚000 years ago. 2. Neolithic: The period of time also known as the New Stone Age. It is associated with the origins of agriculture. 3. Foragers: Hunting and food-gathering people who ate wild vegetables‚ meat‚ wild edible plants‚ and insects to survive 4. Agricultural Revolutions: A series of separate transformations that occurred when agriculture arose independently in many different
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accomplish other thing that were important. They didn’t start out that way‚ but thing where able to change in the Mesopotamian area. The Mesopotamia area is between two rivers the Tigris and the Euphrates. Mesopotamia was the creation of the universe with their ruler Marduk. He made things possible to achieve which made and kept the gods happy. During the Paleolithic era‚ people where hunting to find food instead of farming before civilization occurred. This made them not be able to focus‚ maintain
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records is attained. Nomads - members of a people who have no fixed residence but move from place to place usually seasonally and within a well-defined territory. Homo sapiens – The human species that emerged as most successful at the end of the Paleolithic period. Agrarian Revolution – Chinese Civil War Matrilineal - relating to‚ based on‚ or tracing descent through the maternal
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EXAM I VOCABULARY Paleolithic and Neolithic Vocabulary to Know: * Paleolithic – 40‚000-8‚000 BC Old Stone Age‚ mankind produced * Neolithic – New Stone Age 1. Comes about at different times at different locations due to ice age ending unevenly 1. Development of organized system of agriculture (replacing hunting gathering community) 1. Domestication of animals 1. Permanent architecture (year round settlements) * Iconography – pictoral representations * sculpture
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A.P. World History Guided Reading 1 "The Origins of Agriculture to the First River-Valley Civilizations” TERMS: Culture - Socially transmitted patterns of action and expression Foragers - Hunting and food gathering people Animal domestication - The killing of animals for food Pastorialism - Way of life dependent on large herds of grazing livestock Matrilineal - Kinship with mother Patrilineal - Kinship with father Lineages - the holding of land by large kinship (blood relationship)
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e. There are several possible reasons why the people of this culture built such tall‚ tower-like structures to support temples. Give one. So you would write in your blue book‚ 1 a. The White Temple b. Sumerians c. either Mesopotamia or Iraq would be OK. If I
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The mix between pure coincidence and Mother Nature helped develop the path to the transition to agriculture. For over 100‚000 years‚ the first people‚ later known as the Natufian people‚ were known for being the hunter-gatherers during the Paleolithic Era. It was right after the an ice age that lasted for over 400‚000 years that these people scavenged the lands of Europe for food; hunting for wild animals and gathering wild grown plants. They depended on this as their way of life and as a result
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with the invention of writing‚ founded by the great civilization of Egypt and Mesopotamia. In this period appear the first great cities in the main big rivers: Nile‚ Tigris and Euphrates‚ Indus and yellow river. One of the great advances of this period was writing‚ generated primarily by the need to keep records of economical and commercial nature. The first writing code was the cuneiform script‚ which emerged in Mesopotamia 3500 BCE‚ written on clay tablets. It was based on pictographic and ideographic
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A. Cundari Syllabus HIS/112 Western Civilization From Prehistory to the Middle Ages Course Start Date: 08/06/2014 Course End Date: 09/03/2014 Campus/Learning Center: East El Paso Facilitator Information Alison Cundari alicundari@email.phoenix.edu (University of Phoenix) alicundari@aol.com (Personal) 915-626-9025 (MST)
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The Paleolithic era was an era that started two million years ago‚ and ended ten thousand years ago. This era often called the Old Stone Age was when human evolution took place‚ it was a very slow going change from ape like humans to today’s Homo sapiens. This era is important because during this time humans started to make stone tools for hunting‚ making shelter and creating clothing‚ and without this era who knows where we would be now‚ "The Old Stone Age (Paleolithic Era)." The Old Stone Age
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