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7304500411Paleolithic Age/Old Stone Ageended in 12000 BCE, was identified by the using of stone tools and hunting and gathering.0
7304514494Mesolithic Age/Middle Stone Agethe "middle" age between the Paleolithic and Neolithic. Between 12000 and 8000 BCE1
7304516949Neolithic Age/New Stone Agebetween 8000 and 5000 BCE, agriculture and animal domestication is developed2
7304519035Homo sapiens sapiensthe humanoid species that was the most successful at the end of the Paleolithic era.3
7304524095Africathe country where most human species originated from4
7304541882Bronze Agethe first of the metal ages, between 4000-1500 BCE, when Bronze tools were used instead of stone5
7304543144Homo erectusa species of humanoids that stood on two legs6
7304546338The Neolithic Revolutionthe change in technology and in the human race that led to the development of agriculture7
7304554521hunters and gathererstheir primary food source was from hunting and foraging, involved moving around a lot to stay alive8
7304565331nomadsherders that lived in small bands on the outskirts of civilizations9
7304567749civilizationscities that relied on agriculture and had large populations10
7304606075Middle Eastthe place where agriculture first took flight and the place where the first civilizations were created11
7304607861Bering Land BridgeThe Arctic Ocean froze over and provided a land like passage that hunters unknowingly passed over to the Americas on12
7304636809Catal Huyuka Neolithic Age city in Turkey that scientists have studied and learned much about human history from13
7304648633agriculturethe science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products.14

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