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4943640015JerichoA village the growing to a town then into a small city0
4943640016LucyWhat's a species of Australopithecusafarensis, A bipedal creature that lived in eastern Africa more than 3 million years ago. It was discovered in 19741
4943640017"Marker events" of prehistoryPeople settle down, private property was created, division of labor, social and equality, gender any quality, importance of surplus, religious change2
4943640018Neolithic craft industriesThree emerged such as pottery, metallurgy, and textiles3
4943640019Neolithic (or agriculture) revolutionRefers to change over from food gathering to food producing that serves as a "marker event "that transformed Humane Society and the natural environment4
4943640020Paleolithic ageHumans in habited all continents besides Antarctica. Lasted till 8000 B.C.E. Some objects made of stone and bone had survive so we know dominated used them. It was also known as the old Stone Age5
4943640021PastoralismThe first masticators of animals, and they remained semi nomadic regularly leading their heads to fresh gays in grasslands.6
4943640022PolytheismBelieve in multiple gods7
4943640023Primary sourcesOriginal evidence from the time period8
4943640024SurplusMore crops then the farmer needed to feed his own family9
4943640025SpecializationWhen there is a more important person, figure, God and the praise it10
4943640026Cultural diffusionPopulation movement, people spread their cultures to new areas, including innovations, technology, religion, language, food and clothing styles and disease11
4943640027Independent inventionNo cultural diffusion involved for creating new inventions12
4943640028HorticultureA culture the only used handtools13
4943640029Division of laborMen are hunters. Women were farmers. Then villages came and more jobs were involved14
4943666255Catal HuyukA village that had grown into a town in from a town to a small city15
4943666256BipedalismOne distinction between humans and other animals. The preference for walking erect on to lambs rather than four16
4943666257AgricultureThe deliberate tending of crops and livestock in order to produce food and fiber17
4943666258Push and pull factorPush-encourages people to move from the region that they live in Pull-attracts them to a new region18
4943682086PerspectiveFocus on the point of veiw19
4943682087PeriodizationDividing different time periods into chunks to making it more manageable20
4943682088The myth of continentsA book by Martin W Lewis and Karen in the wagon that focuses on the unexamined Spatial assumptions that we all make, starting with the idea that the world is somehow divided into "continents "21
4943712151MigrationsPermanent moves to a new location that have occurred on local, regional, and global levels. There are many reasons why people would voluntarily migrate, but most of them were economic22
4943712152Marker eventsDates the change the course of history, and problems with fixing the dates for the lack of interaction among groups of human beings, so change in one area might not occur in another part of the world till much later23
4943712153Intervening obstaclesPhysical features the hold or snow migrations from one place to another. Overtime is obstacles may have different meanings; the ocean that separated lands no longer prevents migrations once the technology to cross the ocean develops24
4943712154DemographyThe study of population a term derived from the ancient Greek words "demos", meaning population or people, and "graphe" meaning to describe. Demography is of interest to many social science disciplines including geography, with its special emphasis on Spatial organization: the location of places, people and events and the connections among places and landscapes.25
4944475366Fourth millennium4000-3000 BCE26
4944475367ArchaeologistScientists who study prehistoric in ancient people's27
4944581476Homo sapiensHad several advantages over other species, including forelimbs freed from walking and opposable thumbs, with both features allowing them to manipulate objects as tools and weapons.28
4944821300HorticulturalistsWere the first to settle in one place, and eventually were able to integrate domesticated animals into their communities29

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