Origins of Civilization

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  1. 4. Period The earliest and longest phase of human prehistory. It began roughly 2.6 million to 3.3 million years ago with the first use of chipped stone tools and lasted until about 10,000 BCE with the end of the last Ice Age and the rise of agriculture.
  2. 6. The belief in and worship of multiple gods or deities.
  3. 8. A member of a community that moves regularly from place to place rather than living in a single permanent location. This movement is usually seasonal and tied to securing food, water, or grazing pastures for survival.
  4. 10. - a large political unit or sovereign state where a dominant central power (the metropolis) rules over distinct, diverse territories and ethnic groups.
  5. 14. The sixth king of the First Babylonian Dynasty, who expanded a small city-state along the Euphrates River into an empire that united all of Mesopotamia. He is most famous for the Code of Hammurabi, one of the oldest and most complete written legal codes in human history.
  6. 15. An independent, sovereign country made up of a single main city and the farm lands or villages around it.
  7. 16. A complex human society. It features cities, a central government, job specializations, social classes, and writing systems.
Down
  1. 1. - An ancient system of writing that uses pictures and symbols instead of standard letters.
  2. 2. To arrange laws, rules, or system information into a clear, organized, and written code.
  3. 3. a system where people, groups, or institutions are ranked one above the other based on power, status, wealth, or authority.
  4. 5. - The belief in the existence of only one god or in the oneness of God.
  5. 7. - Mesopotamia was one of the first places where humans started practicing settled agriculture, and the earliest known writing system, cuneiform, originated there as well.
  6. 9. Period The final stage of the Stone Age. It began around 10,000 BCE in the Middle East and marked a massive shift in world history. Humans changed from nomadic hunter-gatherers into settled farmers who grew crops and raised animals.
  7. 11. - A sequence of rulers from the same family or lineage who hold power over a country or empire through hereditary succession.
  8. 12. - The supreme political and religious ruler of ancient Egypt
  9. 13. The shared way of life of a group of people. This includes their language, beliefs, values, laws, arts, food, and daily habits. It is the human-made part of the environment that is passed down from one generation to the next.