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Question 1

Artifact

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Human-made objects, such as tools and jewelry

Question 2

culture

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A people’s unique way of life.

Question 3

Hominids

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Humans and other creatures that walk upright, such as australopithecines.

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Paleolithic Age

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The earlier or longer part of the Stone Age, called the old Stone Age

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Neolithic age

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The New Stone Age- began 8000 B.C

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technology

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Ways of applying knowledge, tools, and inventions to meet ones needs

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Homo-sapiens

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The species name for modern humans- “wise men”

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Nomads

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Highly mobile people who moved from place to place foraging, or searching, for new sources of food

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Hunter- gatherer

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Nomadic groups who’s food supply depended on hunting animals and collecting plants

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Neolithic revolution

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Agricultural revolution; The far reaching changes in human life resulting from the beginnings of farming

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Slash and burn farming

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The cutting trees or grasses in which they burned; the ashes would fertilize the soil.

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Domestication

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The taming/ controlling of animals

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civilization

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A complex culture with advanced cities, specialized workers, complex institutions, record keeping, advanced tech

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Specialization

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The development of skills in a specific type of work

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Artisans

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skilled workers who made goods by hand

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Institution

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A long lasting pattern of organization in a community

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scribes

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professional record keepers- invented system of writing called cuneiform

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Cuneiform

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System of writing creates by Sumerians using pictographs

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Bronze Age

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Refers to the time when people started using bronze rather then copper of stone

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Barter

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Trading goods and services without money

Question 21

Ziggurat

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Pyramid shaped monument meaning “mountain of God”

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Fertile crescent

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curved shaped region containing rich land/ fertile soil

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Mesopotamia

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Plain facing the Mediterranean Sea- land between the rivers

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City State

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A city and the surrounding lan it controlled

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Dynasty

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A series of rulers from a single family

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Cultural diffusion

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The spreading of new ideas or products from one culture to another

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Polytheism

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The belief in more than one god

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Empire

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A set of peoples, nations, or previously independent states under the control of one leader

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Hammurabi

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Babylonian emperor which created the first set of laws

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delta

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the fertile region at the beginning of the the nile

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narmer

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King of Egypt which untied the north and south

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pharaohs

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The Egyptian god-king

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theocracy

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government which rule is based on on religious authority

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Pyramid

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The resting place after in which the god kings would be placed

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mummification

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embalming and drying of corpses to prevent decaying of the pharaohs

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hieroglyphics

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system of writing in which they carve pictures

Question 37

papyrus

Answer 37

reeds which were used to write on