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| composed of small groups of peole who traveled from point to point as the climate and availability of plants and animals dictated. |
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| new stone or agricultural revolution around 3000 b.c.e. |
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| contrast nomadic vs. agricultural revolution |
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| agricultural involved emotional and psychological issues, nomadic was moving around |
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| what contributes to the development of a civilization |
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| specialization of labor is key |
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| figured out how to combine copper with tin to create an even harder metal |
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| made up of an urabn center and the agricultural land around it under its control |
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| civilzations during 3000 - 2000 bce |
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| meospotamia, egypt, india, china, and americas |
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| land bwetween 2 river; tigris and euphrates; sumer, babylon, and persia; known as the fertile crescent |
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| ur, erech, and kish were major city-states; 3000 b.c.e., southern part of mesopotamia, form of writing called cunneiform to set down laws, treaties, and important social and religious customs; intro of wheel, 12 month calender, a math system based on 60, polytheistic, ziggurats, overthrown by 1700 bce |
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| akkad; 1700; babylon; code of hammurabi - major n minor offenses, a sense of justice and fairness; kassities and hittes, 1500 iron; assyrians, iron, nineveh, medes and chaldeans, chaldean king rebuilt babylon as a showplace (nebuchadnezzar) |
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| 500 bce; from nile to eatern mediterranean though present-day turkey and parts of greece, and eatward though afganistan; great royal road 1,600 miles from persian gulf to the aegean sea |
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| big accomplishments during agriculural |
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| code of hammurabi, and iron; as civilizations were conquered their cultural heritagee, religions,laws, and customs, and technologies were rarely lost |
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| lydians, phoenicias, hebrews |
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| Lydians: coined money, cosistent prices Phoenicias: power naval city-states, alphabet using 22 letters, Hebrews: 1000 bce judaism, monotheistic, gods chosen people |
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| soil was rich, nile, predictable unike mesopotamia, old, middle, and new kingdom, during new it reached its helight. 1400 bcc.e from upper nile to palestine n parts of asi minor (800 miles; king meses (b4 old), pharoahs, hieoglyphic, claender, timber and tone, gold and spices, polytheistics, mummification, queen hatsheput, women rights, SS: pharoash, preists, noblesm merchantsn skilled workers, peseants, slaves |
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