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1. term describing most of the 2 million plus years during which our species has existed.; typified by use of Crude Stone tools, hunting, & gathering for subsistence
2. the New Stone Age; period in which adaptations of sedentary agriculture occurred; domestication of plants and animals accomplished
3. centered on the development of agriculture; the succession of technological innovation and changes in a human organization that led to a change/development of agriculture
4. since learning new agricultural methods have been difficult, many people long combined a bit of agriculture with hunting & gathering techniques
5. when bronze tools were first introduced in the Middle East; when iron began to replace it
6. societies distinguished by reliance on sedentary agriculture, ability to produce food surpluses , and existence of non-farming elites, as well as merchant & manufacturing groups
7. Early urban culture based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern southern Turkey; was larger in population than Jericho, had greater degree of social stratification
8. a form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge-shaped stylus & clay tablets
9. cattle-and sheep-herding societies normally found on the fringes of civilized societies; commonly referred to "barbarian" societies
10. literally "between the rivers"; the civilizations that arose in the alluvial plain of the Tigris and Euphrates River Valleys