African Genesis
History and Culture in the Ice Age
The Agricultural Revolutions
Life in Neolithic Communities
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| 286304208 | Charles Darwin | English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882) | 0 | |
| 286304209 | Natural Selection | a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment | 1 | |
| 286304210 | Australopithecus Africanus | the closest relative to homo habilis, first human to use hand signs as language. , gracile hominid of southern Africa | 2 | |
| 286304211 | Hominids | humans and other creatures that walk upright | 3 | |
| 286304212 | Three Traits of Humans | ... | 4 | |
| 286304213 | Great Ice Age | Beginning about 2 million years ago and ending about 10,000 years ago, the Ice Age was not only responsible for reshaping the North American landscape into almost exactly what we know it to be today, but it was also responsible for North America's human history; when the sea-level dropped about 35,000 years ago due to the oceans congealing into ice glaciers, the Bering Strait - a land bridge connecting Asia and North America - was uncovered. Asian nomads chased game across the bridge into the Americas until the sea rose above the land bridge again when the ice melted about 10,000 years ago | 5 | |
| 286304214 | Homo Habilis | the earliest member of the genus Homo, found on sites dating between 2.5 and 1.6 million years ago. extinct species of upright east African hominid having some advanced humanlike characteristics | 6 | |
| 286304215 | Homo Erectus | Hominids who are believed to have walked completely upright like modern people do, called "Upright Man". | 7 | |
| 286304216 | Homo Sapiens | the only surviving hominid. species to which modern man belongs; bipedal primate having language and ability to make and use complex tools. | 8 | |
| 286304217 | Culture | the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next. | 9 | |
| 286304218 | The Stone Age | •15,000 to ~3000 BC •It covers the period where humans went from a nomadic life to an agricultural life. •Domestication of animals allowed the substitution of animal power for human power. •Other developments include the grinding stone, and harvesting and production of crops. •We can consider the use of fire as an important technology. | 10 | |
| 286304219 | Foragers | hunting and food gathering peoples | 11 | |
| 286304220 | Two-parent family | Family consisting of a father, a mother, and their biological child or children who live together. | 12 | |
| 286304221 | Cave Paintings | Pictures were used to communicate information, ideas, and history. | 13 | |
| 286304222 | Human Burials | Started some time in the upper paleolithic times. evidence suggests that the Neanderthals were the first hominids to intentionally bury the dead, doing so in shallow graves along with stone tools and animal bones. | 14 | |
| 286304223 | Neolithic Revolutions | change from nomadic herding to settled farming | 15 | |
| 286304224 | Emmer Wheat and Barley | ... | 16 | |
| 286304225 | Shifting Cultivation (Swidden Agriculture) | A form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another; each field is used for crops for relatively few years and left fallow for a relatively long period. Common in Slash & Burn in the Rain Forest farming (Rain Forest common practice) | 17 | |
| 286304226 | Rice Cultivation | ... | 18 | |
| 286304227 | Maize | Crop upon which the Inca and Aztec agricultural practices were based | 19 | |
| 286304228 | Potatoes and Quinoa | ... | 20 | |
| 286304229 | Pastoralists | nomads who kept herds of livestock on which they depended for most of their food | 21 | |
| 286304230 | Holocene | The current interglaciation period, extending from 10,000 years ago to the present on the geologic time scale. | 22 | |
| 286304231 | Ancestors | people from whom one is descended | 23 | |
| 286304232 | Religion of Food Producers | ... | 24 | |
| 286304233 | Religion of Food Gatherers | ... | 25 | |
| 286304234 | Megaliths | Structures and complexes of very large stones constructed for ceremonial and religious purposes in Neolithic times. | 26 | |
| 286304235 | Craft Specialization | a factor of economics which leads to sedentary lifestyles and subsistence practices like agriculture. The assignment of specific tasks to specific people or subsets of people in a community. | 27 | |
| 286304236 | Jericho | early walled urban culture based on sedentary agriculture; located in modern Israel-occupied West Bank near Jordan River. An ancient and strategically vital city in Canaan, the first major city to be captured by the Israelites. | 28 | |
| 286304237 | Catal Huyuk | One of first true cities in history, created in the Neolithic Era in 6500 to 5500 BC, from which were created agriculture, trading, temples, housing, and religions. located in modern southern Turkey. | 29 |
