Chapter 1

What is Civilization?

• A way of life based on agriculture and trade, with cities containing large buildings for religion and government; technology to produce metals, textiles, pottery and other manufactured objects; and a knowledge of writing

• the stage of human social development and organization that is considered most advanced

• Civilization is a series of turn-based strategy video games first released in 1991

Redistributive economy

• substantial share of the wealth flows into the control of a centralized administration and they control how it is distributed

• promotes the equitable distribution of wealth through a combination of: open design, Flexible Fabrication, and Open Business Models, towards replicability.

Hierarchy in Chapter 1 is important because...

• eventually led to one of the most widespread forms of

  government- the monarchy

• bc a division of labor was needed

• it lead the way to a more substantial type of civilization

Hunter-gatherers were...

• Paleolithic people

• Neolithic people

Fertile Crescent is a ...

• crescent-shaped region containing the comparatively moist and fertile areas of what is an otherwise arid and semi-arid Western Asia, the Nile Valley and Nile Del

• The one area of the cafe with eatable food

• an area of land in South Africa that is known as "paradise" and contains the majority of plants that are now accustomed to most areas of the world

What is true about the Ancient Egyptians?

• Believed their culture was superior to others

• respected the gods, preserved hierarchy, and obeyed the king

• Belief in the soul immortality and a happy afterlife motivated them to construct the largest tombs in history, the pyramids

• Unified community

• Created the first type of writing style

What is true about Mycenaean civilization?

• Spoke Greek and made burnt offerings to the gods

• concentrated worship of gods in their walled communities

• built megarons

• built pyramids

• made human sacrifes to their gods

What is true about the Minoan Kingdom?

• extended worship of gods outside their centers, establishing sacred places in caves, on mountaintops, and in country villa

• had a very exclusive since of community and worship was very ritualistic

Who were the Sea Peoples

• powerful coalition of seaborne invaders who cut off trade routes

• an ancient community of people who were very peaceful, lived off the sea, and regularly traveled to new land