Name: ____________________________ Date: ___________ Per: ____________
AP World History I
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Chapter 1: The Early Civilizations
The Basics…
 Paleolithic (_____ Stone Age): Until about __________ years ago (_________ BCE)
 Mesolithic (________ Stone Age): _________ BCE – ____________ BCE
 Neolithic (______ Stone Age): __________ BCE – ca. 3500 BCE
 Followed by __________ Age and ___________ Age
Characteristics…
Paleolithic:
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Simple ____________ creation
___________ tamed around 750,000 years ago
1.5 million ___________ around 100,000 years ago
Homo ____________ emerges between 500,000 and _________ years ago
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Mesolithic:
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Improved ___________ making skills
Better ___________ and cutting edges
Use of ___________ for needles.
Improved _____________
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Neolithic:
• Invention of ______________
• Creation of ____________
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Domestication of _________________
Concept of “___________________”
Human “evolution”
The Development of Agriculture…
Human beings are able to settle in _________ spot
Allows humans the ability to focus on ____________, political, and ______________
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Spawns a great increase in the number of _____________ in the world
 6 to 8 million people during early __________ to about ___________ million
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The end of the Ice Age
Population __________________
Big game ______________ retreat…causes a decline in the effectiveness of ________
Increased dependence on wild _____________, ___________, and nuts sets the stage for the deliberate planting of seeds, and the ultimate improvement of crops through
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The Neolithic "revolution"
 Combined old systems of ___________ and gathering with new concepts of
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Early agriculture could support many _____________…far more than hunting and
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Agriculture requires more regular ______________ than Hunting and Gathering.
Larger populations freed some people for other ___________________.
 ________________-making
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Knowledge of _________________ (weather…flooding, etc)
The Development of agriculture is driven by the following process…

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End of ____________ Age
Ice melts, flooding the earths _____________, seas, rivers
Under ice, for thousands of years has been soil enriched by thousands of years of _________________…untouched!
Floods cause this highly fertilized soil (____________) to overflow the river  banks
 This silt becomes the highly charged and energized soil necessary for
______________________ experimentation!
 The Bronze Age
 Development of ____________________ causes faster development
 By 4000 BCE we see the development of _______________ tools.
 _____________ at first…
 _____________ (more resilient) later
 Improved __________________
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Caused greater ___________________
We still live in metal ages today
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 _____________ Age
Civilization
 __________________ contained anywhere from 40-60 people
 ____________ and _____________ Agriculture existed in parts of the American South and other parts of the world
 Farm soil until it’s _______________
 Advantages to staying in one place…
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______________ can be built
______________ can be built for water
______________ systems
Civilization
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Economic ______________ to form divisions of labor
Formal _______________
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 Development of _______________
The 8 features of Civilization
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Well-Organized Central _______________
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Complex ___________________-
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Job ___________________
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__________________ Classes
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Arts and _______________
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Public ________________
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Mesopotamia
 The World’s first “____________________”
 Founded in the valley of ____________ and ________________ Rivers
 An example of completely ______________ social creation
 Only occurs in _______________ and _____________________
 ___________ had been invented for transportation, well established
______________ industry, interesting _____________ forms, farming needed
__________________, gave basis for complex political structures.
 By 3500 BCE, the ____________________ developed a system of writing known as _________________________

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Arts: __________________ and frescoes adorned the temples of ___________
Science: founding of _____________, and improved _____________ knowledge
Developed a _____________________ system based on units of 10, 60 and 360.
 What do those numbers represent for us?
Complex Religious rituals
 __________________: monumental architecture
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 ________________ force was present in many natural objects
 Belief in an afterlife of ___________________
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Organized City-States ruled by a ______________ who claimed divine authority.
The King, noble class, and the priesthood controlled land which was worked by
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Farmers learned about fertilizers, and adopted ____________ as a means of
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Constant warfare in the region.
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Sumerians
Akkadians
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Babylonians
 King __________________ introduces the Code of Hammurabi, an early
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Established _______________ of procedure for courts of law
Regulated _________________ rights
 Set harsh punishments for _______________
Continual warfare by ______________ peoples, then Assyrians, and later the
Persians
Egypt
 Second civilization to spring up…around the ______________ River forming by
3000 BCE
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Less susceptible to _______________
Benefited from _____________ with Mesopotamia, but produced a unique culture due to some degree of isolation
 The king, or _________________ possessed immense power.
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Influential in controlling the _________________
Built tombs for themselves…the __________________
Control of Egypt spread up and down the Nile 
 The kingdom of _______________ (southern Nile) invaded and ruled
Indus River and Chinese Civilization
 Indus River Valley Civilization
 Civilization emerges by ________________ BCE
 Many large cities, including __________________ and Mohenjo-Daro
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Houses had running ___________________
_____________________ has yet to be deciphered
Infiltration by Indo-Europeans and natural _______________ result in
 destruction of civilization
Chinese Civilization (Huang He River)
 Developed in considerable __________________
 Extensive __________________ that regulated the _____________ projects
 By 2000 BCE, evidence of advanced _________________ and elaborate
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Writing system of ___________________ symbols

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Heritage of RVC's
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Taming of the _________________
Usable ____________________
 ________________ implements
 Key __________________ concepts
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Well-organized _________________
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Heritage of RVC's
 Most RVC’s were in decline by ______________ BCE
 ________________: Around 1300 BCE produced a simplified alphabet with ______ letters, which was the predecessor of ______________ and Roman alphabets
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The Lydians introduce ________________ money
A Semitic group of people, the ______________, influenced by Babylonian
Civilization settled near the Mediterranean around 1200 BCE and introduced
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 Single god: ___________________ guided the destiny of the Jewish people.
 Forms the basis of the ____________________ Bible
 Domination by foreign rulers from 772 BCE . _______________ seize the state in 63 BCE 