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Question	Answer
"southern ape-men" first to use stone tools and walk	Australopithecines
"handy human" brains 50% larger than Australopithecines	homo habilis
"up right humans" 1.5 million years ago/first incarnation human to move	homo erectus
"wise human" 250,000 years ago/began to spread outside of africa 70,000 years ago	homo sapien
used stone tools and buried their dead/ wiped out by 30,000 BCE	neanderthal
hunted animals and found foods that grew wildly	Paleolithic Hunters and gatherers
did not cultivate food/ food sources were unpredictable	Paleolithic Hunters and gatherers
work was evenly distributed between men and women	Paleolithic Hunters and gatherers
10,000-4000 BCE "new stone" Revolution of systematic agriculture	The Neolithic Revolution
Transforming the land, planting/harvesting crops, demonstrating animals for food, fur, and burden	Agriculture
began to build settlements/ mens work (outside) women's work (inside)	The Neolithic Revolution
copper+tin= bronze wide spread (3000-1200)	Bronze Age
Agricultural advancements due to "modern" tools made of bronze and weapons	Bronze Age
Before the bronze age/ weapons and tools were starting to be made with iron	Iron Age
Named by the greeks/The fertile crescent is an area between the eastern mediterranean and the Persian Gulf	Mesopotamia
the land between the Tigris and Euphrates; site of several ancient civilizations; part of what is now known as Iraq	Mesopotamia
(stepped towers related to gods) were a Sumerian hallmark , and began to appear in multiple cities in the region	ziggurats
Led his Akkadian people to dominate most of Mesopotamia	Sargon warlord
Regarded as Western Civilization's first empire (c.2340-2150 BCE) a multi-ethnic group under one military ruler	Sargon
Sargon enforced the worship of the war deity _______ across his territory	Marduk
following the collapse of Akkadians in 2150 BCE, independent city states returned to Mesopotamia until the rise of ___	Ur
Third dynasty/was the last authentic Sumerian culture	Ur
another warlord who re-established imperial control over Mesopotamia from his capital, Babylon (1792-50), largely by manipulating cities against each other	Hammurabi
A set of laws posted throughout the Babylon empire, was the ruler's greatest legacy	The code of Hammurabi
comprised of legal guidelines from everything from property rights to family formation	The code of Hammurabi
name of jewish book of sacred scripture	hebrew bible
jewish religious leader	rabbis
most of the population was taken as____ to Babylon	slaves
Israel allied with ____ states against the Assyrian Empire. It was destroyed by 8th BCE	Syrian
during and after the babylon captivity, _______ writing became the core of the Hebrew Bible	rabbinical
David established ____ as a Hebrew capital. was the "promised land" of Canaan	Israel
began in northern Mesopotamian region/expanded to control the nile	The Assyrian Empire
first large scale iron weapon-wielding army/ unpopular to their subject	Assyrian Empire
conquered the Assyrian successors /Cyrus the great/built Persia to touch 3 continents	The Persian Empire
liberated the Jews from the Babylon captivity	The Persian Empire
divided in 20 providences called satrapies (ruled by sataps)	The Persian Empire
Persians practice _____	Zoroastrainism
The early dynastic period introduced _______	hieroglyphics
first pyramids and pharaohs were in what kingdom	Old kingdom