Please learn how to template for WordPress first, before proceeding further. It will help you understand how you are proceeding and what you are achieving.
Please note what is the Minimal requirement for a theme to BE a ‘theme’:
index.php(notindex.html)style.css
That’s it.
It will work like a complete theme, and you can activate the theme without any harassment.
But to make it a complete theme you have work a lot, and you have to start from the style.css and functions.php… all are explained here in Codex:
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