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31 Cards in this Set
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Prehistory
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- time before written records
- ouur knowledge of this time is based on information from archeologist- artifact (tools, weapons, jewelry) Anthropologist- skeletal remains - 3 million BC to 2000 BC Nothing written about the time. |
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Artifacts
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Tools, toys, art, clothing, ect.
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Hominids
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Skeletons of early humans and human-like creatures
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Domestication
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- tamed
- to keep an animal from human use - happened at about the same time as farming - cows, sheep, pigs, horses, dogs |
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Anthropologists
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Can tell by the skeletons how they looked and how long they lived.
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Archeologists
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- study of pre history and history.
- They could tell us about the vulture of the group- how they lived. |
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Neanderthals
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- Earliest homo sapiens
- Wore animal skins, used fire, cooked food - used stone tools - buried the dead important because it means they may have believed in life after death |
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Cro-Magnons
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- Homo sapiens
- Lived in Europe - Better tools and weapons than previous groups - Painted animals that they hunted like bulls, bison and horses |
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Agriculture
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Practice of farming.
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Nomads
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- people who migrate from place to place.
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Culture
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Includes the knowledge, beliefs and behaviors of a group
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Irrigation
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- Was simpler because ditches carried water from the river to the fields.
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Civilization
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A civilization is a complex culture with at least three basic things
1) Surplus good 2) System of government 3) Division of labor |
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Division of Labor
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- with successful agriculture, some people could have jobs other than farming.
- People become laborers, artisans, or traders |
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- What did hominids like Lucy do that makes them similar to modern humans?
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- they walked up right.
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Give one difference between Cro-Magnon men and Neanderthals.
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Neanderthals used stone tools Cro -magnons used better and more improved tools. They could through there tools and Neanderthals couldn’t.
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- What was the Neolithic Agricultural Revolution, and how did it change how people lived?
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Started about 10,000 years age, It was a change from hunting and gathering to growing there own food. It changed peoples life styles they could stay in one place and make a living off what the farmed.
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- What three things are required to have a civilization?
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~ Surplus food
~ system of government ~Davison of labor |
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- Why did the first civilizations all occur in river valleys?
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It was easer and better to farm next to river valleys. the river valleys helped water the crops and had better soil. When people started to farm they would make homes and a civilization. To make a civilization you needed surplus food, division of labor and a system of government. When farming started there was surplus food and people started to billed homes and have jobs.
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explain one advantage of the neolithic Agricultural revolution?
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there was a change from hunting and gathering to growing crops and food. They didnt have to move around they could stay in one spot and make a civilization
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list the three types of hominids discussed in this chapter in order of their appearance on earth.
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-Hominids
- neanderthals - cro- magnons |
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in what way were Neanderthals different from earlier hominids
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whole animal skins,used fire, cooked food, buried their dead.
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what might happen if a hominid older the lucky was discovered
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they might have more or different facts so everything can change
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name the location of one Neolithic cities that archaeologists have found.
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the frist locations where in the river valleys
Villages: jarmo |
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what was similar about the geography of the first four civilizations?
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they where all near river valley civilization
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how were the climates similar?
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they where warm and good to grow crops and farm in.
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what problems could a calendar solve for civilization
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predict the floods each year
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what problems could a written language solve for a civilization
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needed for trade with distant lands
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put the eras in order; iron age, stone age, bronze age.
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-stone age
-bronze age -iron age |
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what three things are required for a civilization
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once heavy tools like plows came about men took over farming and women lost power.
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what was the purpose of government
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-plan farming- irrigation
-divide labor |
