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Chapter 1 Vocab Flashcards

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The long period of time before people invented writing

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Prehistory

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Experts in the study of how people loved in the historical past

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Historian

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Objects made by humans such as clothing, coins, artwork, and grave sites

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Artifacts

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The past and present study of humans

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Anthropology

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Refers to the way of life of a society. Includes its beliefs, values and practices

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Culture

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Study of past people and cultures through their material remains

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Archaeology

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A person who studies archaeology

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Archeologist

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Anthropologists that started searching for clues to the human past in a canyon

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Mary and Louis Leakey

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A deep canyon in Tanzania that anthropologists started searching in for clues abt the human past

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Olduavi Gorge

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skills and tools people use to meet their basic needs and wants. Anything that makes ur life easier

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Technology

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Anthropologist who found additional evidence of early hominids

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Donald Johansson

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A historic find found by Donald Johansson. First in tact skeleton found. She stood upright. Named after beatle song

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Lucy

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Earliest group of hominids

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Australopithecines

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Means handy man. Name for group of hominids. Named this because they were thought of as the first hominids to make stone tools

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Homo Habilis

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Means upright man. Group of hominids given this name because their skeletons show they were fully upright walkers. Discovered fire but didn’t master it

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Homo erectus

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Neanderthals and early modern humans. Mastered fire

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Homo sapien

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Says that homo sapiens first lived in Africa and then migrated into other areas of the world

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Out of Africa theory

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Homo sapiens that lived mostly in Europe and Western Asia

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Neanderthals

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The period from 2 million bc to 10,000 bc

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Paleolithic age/ old Stone Age

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People who move from place to place in search of food

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Nomads

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Belief that spirits inhabit plants, animals, or other natural objects

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Animism

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From 10,000 B.C. to the end of prehistory

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Neolithic age/ New Stone Age

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The change in human societies from hunting and gathering to a more settled way of life based on agriculture and the domestication of animals

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Neolithic revolution

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To raise them in a controlled way that makes them best suited to human use

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Domesticate

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a large, walled village built between 10,000 B.C. and 9000 B.C.

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Jericho

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an early Neolithic village in modern-day Turkey, may have had 6,500 inhabitants living in rectangular mud-brick homes

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Catakhuyuk

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The goods left over after all needs have been met

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Surplus

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Civilization that rose along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the Middle East

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Sumer

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Spread by floodwaters it renewed the soil in the river valleys keeping it fertile

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Silt

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Sparse dry grasslands that nomadic herders tended cattle

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Steppes

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The belief in many gods

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Polytheistic

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Skilled craftspeople who made pottery, finely carved statues, or woven goods

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Artisans

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Rely on custom or tradition and tends not to change over time

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Traditional economy

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Simple drawings that look like the objects they represent

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Pictographs

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Specially trained people who could read and write

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Scribes

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The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another

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Cultural diffusion

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Political unit that includes a city and its surrounding lands and villages

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City-state

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Group of states or territories controlled by one ruler

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Empire

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Coordinate public work projects such as bridge and dam construction. Establish laws and organize defense

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Organized Government

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Belief in one or more gods or goddesses. Institution of rituals

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Complex religion

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Different types of jobs that leads workers to specialize one one task

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Job specialization

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Ranked groups are based on job or economic standing

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Social classes

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Artwork that expresses a society’s talents, beliefs, and values

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Arts and architecture

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Large scale projects for the mutual benefit of a city and its people

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Public Works

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Structured writing system initially used by governments and religious leaders to record important information

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Writing

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