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| 4765938216 | Olduvai gorge | A place in East Africa that has artifacts from the earliest hominids | 0 | |
| 4765938217 | Archaeology | The study of past societies through an analysis of what people have left behind them | 1 | |
| 4766008956 | Anthropologists | Experts who use artifacts and human fossils to determine how people lived their lives | 2 | |
| 4766008957 | Heinrich Schliemann | And early archaeologist from Germany who tried to prove homer story true he went and discovered the site of troy | 3 | |
| 4766008958 | Radiocarbon dating | A method of analysis that calculates the age of artifacts and fossils by measuring the amount of C 14 left in them | 4 | |
| 4766008959 | Thermoluminescence dating | A method of analysis the dates an object by measuring the light given off by electrons trapped in the soil surrounding it | 5 | |
| 4766008960 | Hominids | The earliest humanlike creatures that lived in Africa | 6 | |
| 4766008961 | Austrolopithicous | Southern apes they flourished in eastern and southern Africa and where the first hominids to make stone tools | 7 | |
| 4766008962 | Homo erectus | Upright human being a species that emerged about 1.5 million years ago they learn to use tools and fire and with her first hominids to leave Africa for Europe and Asia | 8 | |
| 4766008963 | Homo sapiens | Why is it human being a species that emerged around 250,000 years ago and marked the third stage of human development they have larger brains and are capable of abstract thought | 9 | |
| 4766008964 | Neanderthals | A type of Homo sapiens that made clothes from animal skins and seem to have been the first to bury their dead | 10 | |
| 4766008965 | Homo sapiens sapien | Wise wise human being a species that appeared in Africa between 150,000 and 200,000 years ago they were the first anatomically modern humans | 11 | |
| 4766008966 | Paleolithic age | Greek for old stone the early period of human history in which humans used simple stone tools and forage for food | 12 | |
| 4766008967 | Nomadic | People who move from place to place to follow plants cycle and animals | 13 | |
| 4766008968 | Neolithic age | . Beginning in 9000 B.C.E. during which humans obtain food by raising crops and animals and continue to use tools primarily of stone bone and wood Greek for new Stone Age | 14 | |
| 4766008969 | Neolithic Revolution | The shift from hunting of animals and gathering of food to keeping of animals and growing a food on a regular basis during the Neolithic age | 15 | |
| 4766008970 | Mesolithic age | Middle Stone Age the period from 10,000 to 7000 BC characterized by a gradual shift from a food gathering and hunting economy to a food producing one | 16 | |
| 4766008971 | Neolithic farming villages | Settlements that were more permanent and able to support larger populations due to the growing of crops on a regular basis | 17 | |
| 4766008972 | Bronze age | From around 3000 to 1200 BC characterized by the widespread use of bronze for tools and weapons Greece is this kind of civilization | 18 | |
| 4766008973 | Civilization | Density of population government division of labor technology writing | 19 | |
| 4766008974 | Stone tools | The first tools made that help humans cope with their environment | 20 | |
| 4766008975 | Catal Huyuk | A Neolithic farming town that is located in modern-day Turkey it is built very close together | 21 | |
| 4766008976 | Mesoamerica | Areas of Mexico and Central America that were civilized before the Spaniards arrived | 22 | |
| 4766008977 | Nile Valley | The river valley that molded Egypt civilization | 23 | |
| 4766008978 | Systemic agriculture | Keeping of animals and growing of food on a regular basis | 24 | |
| 4766008979 | Mediterranean | The center of everything for 4000 years | 25 | |
| 4766008980 | Earth mother's | Females were depicted giving birth or nursing a child they were seen as goddesses | 26 | |
| 4766008981 | Neolithic patterns | Permanent dwellings domesticated animals regular farming specialized occupation and men holding power are all part of the human story | 27 | |
| 4766043218 | Mary Leakey and Louis leaky | People who spend most of their lives searching for early hominids and artifacts at Olduvai gorge | 28 | |
| 4766043219 | Ice Age | Age the past a severe threat to human life began about 100,000 BC and reached coldest temperatures between 20,000 and 10,000 BC most of earth was covered in ice which caused lots of migration | 29 | |
| 4766043220 | Hunter/gatherer | Hunters were usually men who hunted large animals for food and clothing gathers were usually women who gathered berries | 30 | |
| 4766043221 | Selective breeding | The process by which humans of use animal breeding and plant breeding to develop specific characteristics | 31 | |
| 4766043222 | Mesopotamia | Valley between the Tigris and Euphrates river at the eastern end of the Fertile Crescent | 32 | |
| 4766043223 | City state | An independent political entity and the agricultural land around it that supports it | 33 | |
| 4766043224 | Ziggurat | A massive stepped tower upon which was the center of government and was used for storage | 34 | |
| 4766043225 | Theocracy | A government ruled by Divine authority | 35 | |
| 4766043226 | Empire | A large political unit that unifies different kinds of people under a single leader | 36 | |
| 4766043227 | Patriarchal | A society dominated by men | 37 | |
| 4766043228 | Polytheistic | The belief in many gods | 38 | |
| 4766043229 | Tribal | Of or the characteristics of a tribe | 39 | |
| 4766043230 | Complex culture | A group of cultural traits all interacted and dominated by one trait | 40 | |
| 4766043231 | Agricultural revolution | When man went from hunting and gathering to farming and raising animals | 41 | |
| 4766043232 | Lucy/Donald Johanson | Discovered the southern apes which was the oldest fossils | 42 | |
| 4766043233 | Anisim | That your Bhushan I was sold to plants in animate objects and natural phenomena | 43 | |
| 4766043234 | Pastoralism | The branch of agriculture concerned with the raising of livestock | 44 | |
| 4766043235 | Shamans | A person who communicated and had access and influence in the world of gods | 45 | |
| 4766043236 | Domesticating | To tame animals by generations of breeding | 46 | |
| 4766043237 | Characteristics of civilization | Density of population government division of labor technology and writing | 47 | |
| 4766043238 | Foraging | To search weekly for food or provisions | 48 |
