10726674488 | Paleolithic | The period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans. It predates the Neolithic period. | 0 | |
10726679223 | Prehistory | the period of time before written records | 1 | |
10726682397 | Archeology | the study of material evidence of past human life | 2 | |
10726682400 | Anthropology | Study of the origins and development of people and their societies | 3 | |
10726687795 | Hominid | An early ancestor of humans | 4 | |
10726712083 | Homo sapiens | humans | 5 | |
10726745623 | Neanderthals | In Europe, another human species lived and adapted to life in the cold climates of the last Ice Age. | 6 | |
10726788918 | Migration | A movement from one country or region to another | 7 | |
10726791576 | Adaptation | A trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce | 8 | |
10726794448 | Mesoamerica | Mexico and Central America | 9 | |
10726804044 | hunter-forager | Person who gets their food primarily by hunting or fishing animals and gathering plants | 10 | |
10726904006 | Neolithic Revolution | A turning point in the stone age when humans began farming. | 11 | |
10726948126 | Pastoralism | A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food, clothing, and shelter. | 12 | |
10726960660 | agriculture | farming | 13 | |
10726963981 | Mesopotamia | (land between the rivers) The region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers; birthplace of the Sumerian and Babylonian Civilizations. | 14 | |
10726981956 | Specialized Labor | Each person is responsible for a specific, specialized set of tasks at which that person is to become proficient, the workers work is matched on the basis of merit. | 15 | |
10726988283 | Artisans | skilled workers who make goods by hand | 16 | |
10726997944 | Sedentism | the practice of living in one place for a long time | 17 | |
10727002198 | Elites | a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status | 18 | |
10727011693 | patriarchy | A form of social organization in which males dominate females | 19 | |
10727016327 | civilization | A complex, highly organized social order | 20 | |
10727016328 | State | An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government with control over its internal and foreign affairs. | 21 | |
10727019542 | Empire | A group of states or territories controlled by one ruler | 22 | |
10727026091 | colony | A group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country elsewhere. | 23 | |
10727029932 | Aristocracy | A government in which power is in the hands of a hereditary ruling class or nobility | 24 | |
10727039430 | surplus | extra | 25 | |
10727053527 | agrarian | having to do with farming | 26 | |
10731304314 | social hierarchy | the division of society by rank or class | 27 | |
10731305051 | convenant | A mutual or legal agreement | 28 | |
10731307712 | Disseminators | those journalists who confine their role to getting the facts of the story straight and moving the story out to the public quickly | 29 |
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