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History

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The record of events since ppl developed wrriting

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Prehistoric

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The time before the development of writing

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Antropologists

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The study of skeletal remains of early people

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Archaeologist

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Excavates ancient settlement and artifacts

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Artifacts

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Human made material objects

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Culture

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The total of the inherited ideas beliefs, values, and knowledge of a group of living people

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Radiocarbon Dating

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Method of dating organic materials up to 100,000 years old from the rate of decay of the carbon-14 isotopes

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Amino Acid Racemization

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Method of dating organic materials up to one million years old from the rate of decay of amino acid

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Flora

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Plant

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Fauna

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Animal

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Superposition

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Objects higher up or on top are usually newer or younger than objects below

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Paleolithic Period

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Old stone age

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Hominoids

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Apes or primates without tails

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Hominids

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Manlike half man half ape

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Donald Johanson

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1974, discovered the remains of female skeletal remains which are estimated to be about 3 million years ago

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Australopithecus

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Lucy

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Lucy

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Named after the beatles hit Lucy in the sky with diamonds

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Homo Erectus

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walks on 2 legs and walk up right

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Mary Leaky

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in 1978, discovered a series of pootprints embedded in a volcanic ash indicated the individual was bipedal

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Caves

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Primarily source of shelters for the first people

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Caveman

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People who lived in caves

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Migration

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Moved

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Java man

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Indonesa

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Beijing Man

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China

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Homo Habilis

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Resourseful man, handy man

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homo sapien

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Thinking man or wise man or knowing man

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Ice Age

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Permanent sheet of ice

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Glaciers

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Slow moving masses of snow and ice

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Pleistocene Epoch

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The last ice age

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Land bridges

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Ocean levels dropped

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Neanderthal

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Germany Belived to be the first to cook Buried their dead domesticated fire

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Cro Magon

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France real artist

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Mesolithic age

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Middle stone age

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Domesticated

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Tamed Goats for milk and meat
Dogs to hunt

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Neolithic Revolution

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Shift from food gathering to food producing

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Nomads

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Wandereres

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Neolithic age

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New stone age

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civilization

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Highly organized society with complex institutions and attitudes that link a large number of ppl together

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Characteristics of Civilization

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1. Advanced techincal skills invented forge used copper iron bronze
2. created cities with some sort government construction flood control collection of taxes
3. Division of Labor jobs Artisan Merchants traders cultual diffusion
4. Calendar seasons for argriculture predice floods based on moon stars son
5. writing perserve and pass on ideas and information ended preshistoric times

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Nile River

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Egypt

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Tigris and Euphrates

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Iraq

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Indus

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Pakistan

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Ganges

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India

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Huang He

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China

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Forge

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Furnice in which air is force through fire making

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Metallurgy

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Ability to seperatemetal from the ore to use to make tools or alloys

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Bronze

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Mixture of copper and tin

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Irrigation

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Movement of water to farmlands by ditches and cannals

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Artisan

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Skilled Craft worker

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Merchants

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Sold what others made

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Traders

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Import/ expert goods and ideas

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Cultural Diffusion

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Spread of culture from one area of the world to another

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Lunar month

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new moon to new moon

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Invention of writing

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Need to perserve and pass on ideas and information

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Pictogram

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Representing an object

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ideogram

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Represents an idea

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Phonogram

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Representing a sound or syllable

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Alphabet

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Represents a single consonant or vowel

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extended family

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Parents, children, relatives, multiple genterations

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nuclear family

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parents and children

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Stem family

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Parents, oldest children, unmarried children

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clan

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common ancestors

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tribe

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multiple clans common language, culture

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society

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multiple tribes other ppl sharing common culture