Theme 1-- civ test Flashcards
Neolithic revolution
shift from food gathering to food producing
nomad/nomadic
a group of people on the move
sedentary
a person who tending to spend much time seated
fertile crescent
the boomerang shaped region in the Middle East; the first civilization
civilization
a complex culture w 5 characteristics
5 characteristics of civilization
advanced cities, specialized worker, complex inst., record keeping, improved tech
barter
exchange (goods or services) for other goods or services without using money.
scribes
professional record keeper
locations of the first 4 writings
Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, MesoAmerica
cuneiform
Sumerian/Mesopotamian writing system; a wedge shaped writing system usually on clay tablets
hieroglyphics
Egyptian writing system; comes from greek terms hiero and glyph “sacred carving”
papyrus
Egyptian paper; grew in marshy delta, written like the alphabet
glyph
a Maya character or symbol
codex
Maya; a bark/paper book
Popol Vuh
a famous mayan book
Quipu
Inca; knotted strings that recorded data
Diego de Landa
Spanish priest who demanded all of the mayan books to be burned because they were “ devilish”
Napoleon
a French military leader; his soldiers found the Rosetta Stone
The British museum
a popular history museum that has attracts from all around the world that has artifacts they may or may not have taken
Rosetta Stone
a stone that’s now in the British museum engraved with 3 different types of languages greek, hieroglyphics, demotic
Maya codices
books that Maya written; later burned by Catholic spanish
benin bronzes
group of sculptures that was taken from Nigeria and now in the British museum
