Hominids Flashcards
The hominids in order
- Australopithecines
- Homo-habilis
- homo-erectus
- neanderthals
- Cro-Magnon
Australopithecines
crawling, the first hominid
Homo-habilis (man of skill)
First to make stone tools
Homo-erectus
- Traveled to europe
- used intelligence to develop technology—ways of applying knowledge, tools, and inventions to meet their needs.
- Gradually became skillful hunters and invented more sophisticated tools for digging, scraping, and cutting.
- They eventually became the first hominids to migrate from Africa.
- The first to use fire
- may have developed the beginnings of spoken language
- might have named objects, places, animals, and plants and exchanged ideas
Neanderthals
- First to actually bury their dead and to do it with rituals
- To cut up and skin their prey, they fashioned stone blades, scrapers, and other tools.
- gift of musical expression
Cro-Magnon
- created art and have the largest brain size out of all - the human and humanlike beings migrated from North Africa to Europe and Asia
- planned their hunts
- studied animals’ habits and stalked their prey.
- Evidently, their superior hunting strategies allowed them to survive more easily
- This may have caused their population to increase at a slightly faster rate and eventually replace the Neanderthals
- had advanced skill in spoken language may also have helped them to plan more difficult projects.
- identical to modern humans
Homo-Sapiens
men of knowledge
us
what happened during the agricultural revolution?
- Changed from hunter-gatherers to farmers
- Settled down
- Had more food
- men and women both worked in the field
- Created civilizations
- Growth in population
- Diseases spread
- More people could be wiped out due to it
- Natural disasters occured
- They couldn’t move away from them
What makes humans the dominant species?
- our brainsis what makes our species so dominant
- Inventions
- passing culture down
- working together in numbers
we found the earliest data and remains in…
Africa
hominids migrated from where to where?
Africa→Europe→America
location and climate can affect the course of history by
giving civilizations good agriculture and protection and wiping out ones that don’t have good location, resources, or climate.
define
Civilization
A Complex culture that has developed these five things:
- record keeping
- advanced cities
- specialized workers
- complex institutions
- advanced technology
define
Culture
- behaviors, actions, ways, and attributes that a particular group learns over time from their ancestors and passes down to the next generation
- Groups develope culture for their own survival
- the difference between a civilization and a culture is a written record
cultural diffusion
The spread of cultures from their areas of origin to other localities