Prehistory- the period of time
before written records
Paleolithic
Age- second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,00 to 500,000
years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC
Neolithic Age- latest part of
the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the Middle East (but later
elsewhere)
Agricultural Revolution-
or agrarian revolution is a period of transition from the
pre-agricultural period characterized by a Paleolithic diet, into an
agricultural period characterized by a diet of cultivated foods; or a further
transition from a living form of agriculture into a more advanced and more
productive form of agriculture, resulting in further social changes, and some
argue worse individual living conditions
Cuneiform- denoting
or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems
of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets.
Ziggurat- (in
ancient Mesopotamia) a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a
temple. Ziggurats are first attested in the late 3rd millennium BC and probably
inspired the biblical story of the Tower of Babel
Indo-Europeans-
of or relating to the family of languages spoken over the greater
part of Europe and Asia as far as northern India.
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