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32 Cards in this Set
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What is Agliculture? |
The cultivation of life forms for food, medicine, etc. |
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What is an Archaeologist? |
A person that studies culture with artifacts and fossils |
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What is an Artifact? |
Man Made Objects |
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What is an Australopithecine? |
The first hominids to walk upright |
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What is barter? |
exchange of goods and services |
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What isbronze? |
a metal used in the bronze age |
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What is "The Bronze Age"? |
Period after the Stone age where Bronze was used to make weapons |
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What is a Civilization? |
Advanced human social development. |
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What is a clan? |
group of people within the same descent or ancestor |
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What is Cultural Diffusion? |
Spreading of cultural traits to different parts |
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What isCulture? |
The arts and other things of human achievements |
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What is Cuneiform? |
Ancient form of writing, wedge shaped, using characters? |
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What is Domestication? |
Cultivating or taming a population of organisms for agricultural purposes |
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What is a fossil? |
Remains of an organism |
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What is Homo Habilis? |
First people to use stone tools |
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What is Homo Erectus? |
People which tamed fire, migrated, and spoke languages |
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What is Homo Sapiens? |
Man who thinks |
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What is hunter-gathering? |
Way of obtaining food during the Paleolithic Era |
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What is Migration? |
Moving from one place to another |
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What is "The Neolithic Age"? |
New Stone Age |
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What is "The Neolithic Revolution"? |
Time where agriculture is at its peak |
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What is "The Paleolithic Age" |
Old Stone Age |
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What does Polytheistic means? |
To believe in more than one god |
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What is Radio Carbon Dating? |
Objects dated using carbon atoms found in substance |
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What is a Scribe? |
Professional record keepers |
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Slash and burn farming? |
Way of preparing land to farm on |
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What is a ziggurat? |
Type of temple |
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What does the term "Prehistoric" refer to |
Time before writing |
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What is the significance of Dr. Mary Leakey's finding of footprints in Africa? |
Showed signs of a person walking upright |
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What are the 5 stages of early man? |
1. Australopithecine 2. Homo Habilis 3. Homo Erectus 4. Homo Sapiens 5. Homo Sapien Sapiens |
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Another name for the Neolithic Revoulution |
Agricultural Revolution |
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5 characteristics of a civilization? |
Advanced cities Specialized Workers Complex institutions Record Keeping Advanced Technology |