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Culture
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It is the way of life of a group of people who share similar beliefs and customs.
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Cultural traits
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A behavioral characteristic of a people, such as a language, skill, or custom passed from one generation to another.
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Cultural landscape
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A landscape that has been changed by human beings and that reflects their culture
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Agriculture
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Farming; includes growing crops and raising livestock.
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Technology
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Tools and the skills that people need to use them; the practical use of scientific skills, especially in industry
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The IV stages of human development
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I one Stone /Paleolithic age
II New stone/ Neolithic age III 1st agricultural revolutionThe Neolithic (New Stone Age) is characterised by the adoption of agriculture (the so-called Neolithic Revolution), |
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stone age was marked by
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Using stones to advance technology
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New stone age was marked by
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The invention of fire and hunting and gathering
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1st agricultural revolution was marked by
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maybe the invention of domestication and farming
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Social structure
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The ways in which people within a culture are organized into smaller groups; each smaller group has its own task
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Extended family
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A family unit that may include parents children grandparents aunts includes cousins and other relatives often living near or with each other
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Nuclear family
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A family that includes parents and children.
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Elements of culture
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Social organization; Customs and traditions; social classes; Language; arts and literature; religion
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Social classes
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How people are ranked in a culture.
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Ethics
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Standards of accepted behavior/ ideas of right and wrong
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Aesthetics
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Ideas of beautiful and ugly
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Material culture
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Artifacts
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Spiritual/ verbal culture
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Ethics, aesthetics, oral traditions
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economy
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Is a system for producing, distributing and consuming goods and services
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Producers
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Owners and workers
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goods
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Products
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Services
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Work done or duties preformed for other people.
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Customers
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Are people who why and use services and goods.
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Capitalism
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An economic system in which people and privately owned companies own both basic and non basic businesses and industries
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socialism
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An economic system in which the gov owns most basic industries, such as transportation, communications and banking; non basic industries are privately owned.
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Communism
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A theory of gov. in which property such as farms and factories is owned by the gov for benefit of all citizens
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Direct democracy
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a system of gov in which the people participate directly in desicion making
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Monarchy
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a system of authoritarian goverment headed by a monarchy-ussally king or queen-inherits throne by birth
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Constitution
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a set of laws that defines and limits the goverments power
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Representative democracy
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a systemof gov in which people elect representatives to run the affairs of the country
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Dictator
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a ruler who has complete power over a country
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Cultural diffusion
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The progress of accepting, borrowing and exchanging ideas and traits among cultures.
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Acculturation
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a process of accepting, borrowing and exchanging ideas and traits amoung cultures
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Neolithic Revolution /first agricultural revolution,
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The Neolithic Revolution is the term for the first agricultural revolution, describing the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture, as first adopted by various independent prehistoric human societies, in various locations. The term refers to both the general time period over which these initial developments took place and the subsequent changes to Neolithic human societies which either resulted from, or are associated with, the adoption of early farming techniques and crop cultivation.
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Subsequent revolutions "Secondary Products Revolution".
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Animals, it appears were first domesticated purely as a source of meat. The Secondary Products Revolution occurred when it was recognised that animals also provided a number of other useful products. These included:
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