Neolithic Revolution
End of last ice age 14,000 BCE
First potter’s wheel 6,000 BCE
Agricultural development reaches West Africa 10,000-5,000 BCE
Era of Neolithic Revolution 7,000 BCE
Transition to use of bronze 4,000 BCE
Rise of Catal Huyuk 2,000 BCE
Hunting and gathering – Means of obtaining subsistence by human species prior to the adaptation of sedentary agriculture; normally typical of band social organization.
Neolithic Age – The New Stone Age between 8000 and 5000 BCE; period in which adaptation of sedentary agriculture occurred.
Culture - the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations.
Band – A level of social organization normally consisting of 20 to 30 people. …show more content…
Bronze Age - the period of ancient human culture characterized by the use of bronze that began between 4000 and 3000 B.C. and ended with the advent of the Iron Age.
Slash and burn agriculture – A system of cultivation typical of shifting cultivators: forest floors are cleared by fire and then planted on.
Hammurabi – The most important ruler of the Babylonian empire: responsible for codification of law.
Indo-Europeans - a member of the people speaking an unrecorded prehistoric language from which the Indo-European languages are descended.
Civilization - a relatively high level of cultural and technological development; specifically: the stage of cultural development at which writing and the keeping of written records is attained.
Nomads - members of a people who have no fixed residence but move from place to place usually seasonally and within a well-defined territory.
Homo sapiens – The human species that emerged as most successful at the end of the Paleolithic period.
Agrarian Revolution – Chinese Civil War
Matrilineal - relating to, based on, or tracing descent through the maternal
First potter’s wheel 6,000 BCE
Agricultural development reaches West Africa 10,000-5,000 BCE
Era of Neolithic Revolution 7,000 BCE
Transition to use of bronze 4,000 BCE
Rise of Catal Huyuk 2,000 BCE
Hunting and gathering – Means of obtaining subsistence by human species prior to the adaptation of sedentary agriculture; normally typical of band social organization.
Neolithic Age – The New Stone Age between 8000 and 5000 BCE; period in which adaptation of sedentary agriculture occurred.
Culture - the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations.
Band – A level of social organization normally consisting of 20 to 30 people. …show more content…
Bronze Age - the period of ancient human culture characterized by the use of bronze that began between 4000 and 3000 B.C. and ended with the advent of the Iron Age.
Slash and burn agriculture – A system of cultivation typical of shifting cultivators: forest floors are cleared by fire and then planted on.
Hammurabi – The most important ruler of the Babylonian empire: responsible for codification of law.
Indo-Europeans - a member of the people speaking an unrecorded prehistoric language from which the Indo-European languages are descended.
Civilization - a relatively high level of cultural and technological development; specifically: the stage of cultural development at which writing and the keeping of written records is attained.
Nomads - members of a people who have no fixed residence but move from place to place usually seasonally and within a well-defined territory.
Homo sapiens – The human species that emerged as most successful at the end of the Paleolithic period.
Agrarian Revolution – Chinese Civil War
Matrilineal - relating to, based on, or tracing descent through the maternal