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Culture
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The ways of living built up by a group and passed on from one generation to another
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Cultural behavior
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Courtship, child-rearing practices; tools. clothing, shleter; ideas, institutions, beliefs
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Paleolithic Age
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(From greek "old stone") hunters, fishers, gatherers, division of labor by sex
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Neolithic Age
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(from greek "new stone") domestication of wildlife, invention of pottery, permanent dwellings,
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2 advanced Neolithic Settlements
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Catal Hoyuk and Jericho
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Social stratification
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Grouping of people into classes based on factors such as resources, family, religious or political authority, and personal wealth
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Civilization
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Organized society: urbanism, long distance trade, writing systems, and accelerated technological and social development
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Bronze Age
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3100 to 1200 B.C. increasing importance of metal; also ended the stone age.
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Sumerians
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The first civilization
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Akkadians: Sargon
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First empire in history and an absolute ruler
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Amorites: Hammurabi
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Defeated the akkadians; hammurabi developed a code of law and was the most famous king, uniting most of Mesopotamia; capital city-Babylon
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Cuneiform
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Very first writing system developed by the Sumerians; several thousand characters; cut reed stylus and clay tablet
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Epic of Gilgamesh
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Epic poem about a king who went on a journey to find the sole survivor of a great flood
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Ziggurat
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Huge terraced mound of mud bricks topped by a temple
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Divination
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The practice of foretelling the future by magical or occult means
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