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Hominid |
Any of the modern or extinct bipedal primates of the family of Hominidae, including all species of the genre Homo and Australopithecus. Extinct or still living members of the Hominidae Family. |
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Australopithecines |
First Hominids Apearred about 3.6 millon years ago. 3-5 ft. tall. found in South Africa. 1/3 the size of modern humans. |
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Cro-Magnon |
Early homo sapien sapiens |
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Homo-habilis |
Apearred in Easter Africa 2.5-2 millon years ago. 50% larger than Australopithecines. Belived to be the closest relative to modern day man. |
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Multi Regional Theory |
Different Regions progressed into the modern human known as the Homo Sapiens, Sapiens. (Double wise humans.) or Cro-Magons. |
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Out of Africa Theory |
The modern Human materilized out of Africa and began to replace Neanderthals. |
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Homo-erectus |
Apearred about 1.6 millon years ago. 5-6 ft. tall 3/4 the size of the human brain. Believed to have traveled contents. Learned how to use fire. |
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Neanderthals |
Between 500,000 - 200,000 years ago. First evadince found in Neander Valley, Germany 1856. |
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Domesticate |
Animals, crops, general stuff we did to help live in one place. |
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Bronze |
A metal that was often used to craft swords... think Arabian.... Thirteenth warrior... |
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Hammurabi code of laws |
An eye for an eye. |
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Second Illness Maat |
Crucial part of the Egyptian after life system... If failed to pass judgment then you die a second time |
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Indus River Valley |
A civilization around west India That is about the same age as the Egyptians and Mesopotamians.
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Phoenicians
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Invented the alphabet... |
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Akhenaten
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Pharaoh that believed in only one god Atem. King Tut's father... |
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Upper/ Lower Egypt
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The two halves of Egypt
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Hieroglyphics
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Ancient style of writing used in Pharaoh's tomes.
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Rosetta Stone & Jean-François Champollion
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Had three different types of writing and Jean what ever his name was the on to crack it. |
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Sumerians
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Babylonia... People...
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Yin Yang
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Because people got tired of politics and other stuff.
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Moche
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Giant heads... Thirteen of them.. |
