Mesopotamia And Early Humans Flashcards
(32 cards)
Pictographs
Paintings on stone
Petroglyphs
Carvings in stone
When did the Stone Age begin?
2.6 million years ago (3,300) BCE
What progressions did trade make?
Spread knowledge and ideas around
When was the Great Leap Forward?
35000 years ago
What makes a civilization?
Large population
Systems for administering territories
Division of labour
Division of people into economic and social classes
What was the Neolithic revolution?
Starts of agriculture
Domestication if animals
Weaving
Beginning of government
Australopithecus
3.5 million years ago
Walked in 2 legs scavengers
Paranthropus bosei
2 million years ago
Like gorillas
Ate tough vegetation
Not a human ancestor
Could not make shelters
Homo habiles
Scavengers
Struggled in hot dry weather
Couldn’t eat tough vegetation
Ate meat
Stone tools
Homo ergaster / homo erectus
(before Neanderthals)
Sweat glands
Larger brain
Discovered fire
Erect posture
Homo heidelbergenis
500 00 years ago
Used plants got medicine
South Africa
Language
Art
Homo Neanderthal
400 000 years ago
Broad noses to cool down
No imagination
Homo sapiens
(After homo erectus) 2
Larger brains
Replaced homo erectus
Homo sapiens sapiens
(Getting semi civilized)
30,000 years ago
Created sophisticated language
Drew pictures
What is an artifact
Something made by humans if cultural or historical significance
What is an anthropologist
Someone who studies human civilizations
Code of Hammurabi
Eye for an eye
First written code
Cuneiform
Writing system from the Middle East
Used in summeria Akkadia
Nineveh library
First library
Confit
Conformation of the bibles accuracy
What does the term Polytheistic mean
Worshipped more then one god
Theocracy
System of government in which priests rule in the name of god
Dead Sea scrolls
Earliest known version of the testament
Moabite stone
Moabites account for a battle also described in the bible