Chapter 1-Emergence of Early Communities and People

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Gondwanaland (Pangea)

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Formed southern continents

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Laurasia (Pangea)

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Formed the northern continents

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Great Rift Valley (Africa)

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Location of most early fossils; fossils often found in volcanic ash because of revealed layers of earth

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Bipedalism

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Walking up right

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What is skin color based off?

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Skin color is an adaption to environment

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Paleolithic

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Old Stone Age; tools made by chipping stone, wood, bone by homo habilis

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Neolithic

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New Stone Age; tools made by grinding and polishing which made them stronger

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Jarmo

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Iraq; a site where rains supported sustained agriculture

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What did early anatomical changes center around?

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The development of vocal chords; speech and language led to increased communication and changes in the brain

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Pastoralism

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Domestication of animals

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Hallan Cemi

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Turkey, discovered that pigs were the first animals to be domesticated for food

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Jericho

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Jordan

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Catal Huyuk

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Turkey

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Ban Po

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China

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Girding

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A technique to cut bark around trees to kill them, let in sunlight, and keep weeds out

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Caral

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Central site of the Supe Valley near Peru

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Minoans

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Developed society on Crete and gave rise to the civilization of Mycenae in Greece, OVERTHROWN BY DORIANS

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Rig veda

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Ancient Indian religious writings written during the Vedic Age (Aryan nomads migrated to India)

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Hinduism

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The merge of the Vedic and Upanishadic (based on asceticism) religions

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Hittite Empire

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In Turkey; developed iron