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History 1010
Up to Test #1
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History
Undergraduate 1
09/03/2013

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Paleolithic Age
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400,000-8,000 BCE , known as the stone age. Hunters and Gatherers
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Neolithic Age
Definition
Women learned to cultivate, discovered farming
Men domesticated animals
Commerce and Trade
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Mesopotamia
Definition
Tigris and Euphrates
birthplace of civilization and agriculture
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Sumer
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oldest civilization in Mesopotamia
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Cuneiform
Definition
System of writing , used to describe religion
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Polytheism
Definition
Worshiping more than one god
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Nile River
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very important part of Egypt, acts as a highway and flows from south to north, floods regularly
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The Pharaoh
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ruled Egypt, viewed as a god
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Pyramids
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constructed as tombs for the gods,made out of limestone blocks weighing about 15 tons a piece
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Egyptian Writing
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Hieroglyphics and Demotic
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