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The Neolithic Period: The New Stone Age

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1) The Neolithic Period was also called the New Stone Age. It was the final stage of technological development or cultural evolution among prehistoric humans. It was characterized dependence on domesticated plants or animals, stone tools shaped by polishing or grinding, appearance of such crafts as pottery and weaving and the settlements in permanent villages.
2) Mesopotamia was bounded in the northeast by the zagros Mountains and in the southeast by the Arabian Plateau,it was an ancient region in the eastern Mediterranean. Their culture varied upontheir scripts, gods and attitude toward women. They also had a custom set of laws and language. The invention of the wheel was credited in the Mesopotamians.
3) Hammurabi was a very important …show more content…

The Archaic Period is when Athens begin to roughly had painfully development its democratic system. The Classical Period was when the Athens rise in supremacy cause fear in its navy. The Hellenistic period was when Alexander the great conquered the known world.
5) The Lycurgus system was a militaristic system that the Spartans put into place. However because of the size of their army, they feared that losses would weaken them to the point of not being able to defend themselves.
6) Athenian democracy compromised the city of Athens and the surrounding territory of Attica. It was one of the first known democracies and had a system in which participating citizens voted directly on legislation and executive bills.
7) The Delian League purpose was to continue fighting the Persian Empire after the Greek victory. A ancient war fought by Athens and its empire against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta was known as the Peloponnesian War. The war was divided into three phases. The Fifty-Year Peace also known as the peace of Nicias was a peace treaty signed between the Greek city-states of Sparta and Athens. Alcibiades was a prominent Athenian statesman, orator and …show more content…

2) The Sailian Frankish dynasty ruled the Franks for nearly 300 years in a region known as Francia. It also constitutes the setting for the romances of the Holy Grail and ascendancy coincides with the period of King Arthur leading to what is called now the Dark Ages.
3) Charlemagne was the King of the Franks and from 800 the first emperor in western Europe since the collapse of the Western Roman Empire three centuries earlier.
4) Feudalism was a dominant social system in medieval Europe which flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries.
5) The nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants were obligated to live on their lord’s land and give him homage, labor and a share of the produce, for military protection in exchange.
6) The origins of feudalism came from medieval Europe which flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries.
7) An essential element of feudal society was known as Manorialism. The status of peasants under feudalism specifically relating to Manorialism is known as

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