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19 Cards in this Set
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Prehistory
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-The time before written records
our knowledge of this time is based on information from Archelogists- artifacts (tools, weappos, jewelry) anthropologists- skeletal remains 3 million bc to 200 |
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Artifacts
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Are studied by archeologists include tools , weapons, jewelry, toys, art
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Hominids
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People and people – like groups
May or may notbe related to modrn day humans, but did walk upright |
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Domestication
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- to keep an animal for human use
- happened at about the same time as farming - cows, sheep, pigs , pigs, horses, dogs |
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Anthropologists
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anthropologists- skeletal remains
they can tell us how they are old,smart and what they ate |
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Archeologists
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Archeologists – study artifacts artifacets (tools , weapon, jewelry)
They tell u about the culture of the group- how they lived |
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Neanderthals
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They were hominids
Smarter and larger than the groups before them (lucy) Smarter and larger than the groups Communicatd Buried there dead |
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Cro-Magnons
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Were more advanced than neandererthals
Better language, better tools Cave paintings |
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Agriculture
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Farming Produces surplus humans |
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Nomads
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First people who move from place to place for food- (hunter- gatherers)
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Culture
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Includes the knowledge belief and behaviors of a group
-Artifacts give us clues about ancient cultures |
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Irrigation
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Watering crops
Was simpler in river valleys Usually a system of ditches or other methods for moving water |
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Civilization
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A complex culture with at least three things
Surplus food Division of labor Government |
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Division of Labor
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Dividing up jobs other then farming
Can only happen when farmers can grow surplus food |
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What did hominids like Lucy do that makes them similar to modern humans?
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walked upright “thought”
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Give one difference between Cro-Magnon men and Neanderthals.
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Cro-magon had better tools
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What was the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution, and how did it change how people lived?
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It changed to farming from hunting and gathering
They now had extra food, so they could divide jobs, create government, create cities |
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What three things are required to have a civilization?
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Surplus food, government and division of labor
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Why did the first civilizations all occur in river valleys? |
All of the first civiliztions all occur in river valleys because it by fresh water. Its by river valley at first because the water is fresh water and not only can you drink this water or get fish out of it, when you farm you cant use salt water, so they would be by the freesh water for farming and the soil better for plants.
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