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Built walls for protection, irrigation, crop rotation, ________________________ storage, eventually led to
development of __________________________
● Emergence of ______________________________________________
GOVERNMENT
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Start of __________________________ government
Head of families formed council of elders who made village decisions
SPECIALIZATION OF LABOR
● Not everyone needed to farm
● Some became _______________, or skilled workers, making goods to _______________ with neighboring
people.
● _________________________ ,or _______________________, NOT sold
● Beginning of a traditional economy based on agriculture & some trade
● Encouraged people to learn a craft
Çatalhöyük (around 7,000 B.C.E.) / Jericho (10,000 – 9,000 B.C.E.)
NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION CAUSES AND EFFECTS
CAUSES:
EFFECTS:
DEVELOPMENT OF RIVER VALLEY CIVILIZATIONS
CIVILIZATION
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_____________________: a complex culture in which large numbers of human beings share a umber
of common elements
7 TRAITS:
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5.
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7.
RELIGION
● ___________________________: belief in many gods/goddesses
● Priests were important & had a lot of power
● ___________________________: government run by religious leaders
WRITING
● First step were ______________________: simple drawings that look like objects they represent
● Later developed ____________________ writing systems
● Eventually ________________ were the only specially trained people who could read/write & kept records
RIVER VALLEYS
● First civilizations rose independently in ____________________________
● _________________ between the ___________________ & ________________________________________
● ________________________ along the ________ River
● _____________________________________ along the ________________________________
● _____________________________________ along the _____________________________________ (Yellow
River)
CULTURAL DIFFUSION
● _________________________________ is the ____________ of ideas, customs, and technologies from one
people to another
● Occurred through migration, trade, warfare
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