Pre History Flashcards
What is prehistory?
Time before written history
Neolithic Revolution
Move from hunting to farming/domestication of animals
Difference between artifacts and fossils
N/a
Did early man believe in an afterlife?
N/a
Geography’s importance to the study of history
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Advantages of agriculture
Stable source of food, larger population
Role of women during the Paleolithic Age
Gatherers
Importance of rivers
Trade, food, transportation
5 themes of geography?
Location, H-E interaction, geography, movement, region
8 features of civilization?
Public works, complex religion, writing, cities, social classes, well organized gov’t, job specialization, arts and architecture
Nomad
Moves place to place
Anthropology
Study origins of people and society
Archeology
Study of artifacts
Geography
Study of people, environment, and resources
Cultural diffusion
Spread of culture, ideas, technology
Glacier
Big sheet of ice
Latitude
Runs north and south of the equator
Polytheistic
Belief in many gods
Longitude
Runs east and west of the prime meridian
Domestication
Taming of animals for personal use