Week 3 & 4

Question 1

Refers to not judging the culture to your own standard of what is right or wrong, strange or normal

Answer 1

Cultural relativism

Question 2

Someone who believes and sees culture as relative meaning, they do jot judge other people’s practices and understand that there is no such as thing as right or wrong nor good or bad when it comes to culture

Answer 2

Cultural relativist

Question 3

Is the belief that one’s own culture is better than the others

Answer 3

Ethnocentrism

Question 4

Believe that one’s culture is superior to the others

Answer 4

Ethnocentric people

Question 5

Is the general term used by the scientist to categorize the group of early humans and other humanlike creatures that can walk during the prehistoric times

Answer 5

Hominid

Question 6

4 categories of hominid

Answer 6

-Sahelanthropus
-Aridepitus
-Australopithecus
-Homo-classified as humans and not humanlike creatures

Question 7

• Brain size of 500cc
• Biped
• Tool users
• food scavenger

Answer 7

Australopithecus

Question 8

2 major categories of Australopithecus

Answer 8

• Gracie Australopithecus
• Robus Australopithecus

Question 9

Had small teeth & jaw

Answer 9

Gracie Australopithecus

Question 10

Had large teeth and jaw

Answer 10

Robus Australopithecus

Question 11

• Developed bipedalism or the ability to walk upright
• Brain size estimated 35% larger than Australopithecus
• had similar teeth compared to Australopithecus
• diet include variety of plant and meat

Answer 11

Homo Habilis

Question 12

• further enhanced bipedal activities
• strong muscles at neck, shallow forehead, and elongated braincase
• body proportion closely resemble the modern humans
• The hand axes, one of the major Innovations in stone tool era
• diet included an increased consumption of meat

Answer 12

Homo Sapiens

Question 13

• it had a very large brains and an average brain capacity of 82 inches³
• characterized by high, vertical forehead, small teeth and jaw, and defined chin
• it had a lighter skeletal built compared to earlier humans
• it developed a symbolic communication system
• it constructed and used tools for survival

Answer 13

Homo Erectus

Question 14

A cave discovered in South Africa filled with carbonized leaves and grasses made archeologists believed that cooking food was practiced in early humans

Answer 14

Wonderwerk cave

Question 15

Explains the changes in beliefs, knowledge, customs, skills, attitudes and languages or humans overtime

Answer 15

Cultural evolution

Question 16

The earliest known period aka prehistoric period

Answer 16

Stone Age

Question 17

Why does the Stone age called prehistoric period?

Answer 17

Because writing was not yet invented during that time

Question 18

Old stone age, derived from the Greek words: Palaios (old) and lithos (stone)

Answer 18

Paleolithic Period

Question 19

During this period early humans showed their skills with fire and stones

Answer 19

Paleolithic period

Question 20

During this period, early humans gradually domesticated plants and animals. They also started to form their own settlements and communities. Hunting, fishing and food gathering are the activities. They also started to use microliths or small stone tools.

Answer 20

Mesolithic

Question 21

• modern humans started to exist
• they became food producers and introduced the concept of farming
• started to have permanent homes, their own tribes and villages

Answer 21

Neolithic Period

Question 22

Transition period from being homadic to a newly found

Answer 22

Neolithic Revolution

Question 23

The first civilization were found mostly in ______, particularly in _____, and _______, now Iraq.

Answer 23

Asia, China, Mesopotamia

Question 24

(5,900- 3,200 BCE)

This era gave rise to numerous developments such as the invention of the wheel and the transition from the use of stone tools to copper tools

Answer 24

Copper Age

Question 25

(3,200- 2,119 BCE)

Copper instruments were replaced with bronze tools. Along with this, the rise of city-states continued to flourished

Answer 25

Bronze Age

Question 26

3 Implications of the rise of civilization and states

Answer 26

1. Warfare
2. Metalworks
3. Political science