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30 Cards in this Set
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Technology |
The skills and tools people use to meet their basic needs and wants |
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Nomads |
People who move place to place to find food |
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Culture |
The way of life of a society, which includes its beliefs, values, and practices |
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Neolithic Revolution |
The transition from nomadic life to settled farming |
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Mary Leakey |
An anthropologist who focused on drawing Stone Age tools. She found many remains that have become key to our understanding of early homnids |
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Artifacts |
Objects made by humans |
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Animism |
Belief that the world is full of spirits and forces that might reside in animals, objects or dreams |
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Old Stone Age/ Paleolithic Period |
The long period from at least 2 million B.C - 10,000 B.C |
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Polytheistic |
The belief in many Gods |
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Donald Johanson |
An anthropologist who discovered Lucy, a hominid that dated to at least 3 million years ago |
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Olduvai Gorge |
A deep canyon in Tanzania |
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Surpluses |
Extra food |
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Louis Leakey |
A anthropologist who found many tools, bones, and artifacts with his wife, Mary. His enthusiasm for raising funds for research projects inspired a new generation of anthropologists |
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Archaeology |
The study of past people and cultures through their material remains |
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Anthroplogy |
The study of the origins of people and their societies |
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Historians |
Scholars who study and write about the historical past |
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Prehistory |
The long period of time before people invented writing |
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Çatalhüyük |
One of the first Neolithic villages developed around 7,000 B.C and a population as large as 6,500 people |
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Domesticate |
To raise in a controlled way that makes them best suited for human use |
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New Stone Age/Neolithic Period |
Period of 10,000 B.C until the end of prehistory |
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Jericho |
One of the first Neolithic villages (that still exists today). Built between 10,000 and 9,000 B.C. Had a few thousand people and might have a government or leader |
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Empire |
A group of states or territories controlled by one ruler |
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City-State |
A political unit that included a city and its surrounding lands and villages |
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Cultural DIffusion |
The spread of ideas, customs and technologies from one people to another |
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Scribes |
Specially trained people to read and write |
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Pictographs
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Simple drawings that look like the objects they represent |
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Artisians |
Skilled craftspeople |
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Steppes |
Less fertile lands or on dry grasslands |
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Civilization |
Complex, highly organized social order |
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Traditional Economy |
Relies on habit, custom, or ritual and tends not to change over time |
