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7285658172prehistory Vs. Historybefore written record Vs. after written record.0
7285668543Features of civilizationPeople, culture, & communities.1
7285675237Stages of hominid developmentTransition to Neolithic to Metalage2
7285686475"out of Africa" vs. multicultural thesisDid we come from africa or all over.3
7285694048Paleolithic Erasimple tools from rocks and simpler society.4
7285710474Neolithic EraMore farming and building. The start of metal working. Alphabets.5
7285727688Family units, clans, tribesSocial interactions closely relating to social ranking.6
7285741974Foraging SocietiesSocieties that looked for there food instead of growing it.7
7285761776nomadic hunters and gatherersmore evolved foraging societies with agricultural ties8
7285769096Ice ageTemperatures drop and animals migrate south.9
7285803534civilizationa society w/ a hierarchy10
7285808202Neolithic revolutionWidespread agricultural lifestyle11
7285816097Domestication of plants and animalsFarming plants and keeping tamed animals.12
7285824066nomadic pastoralismHerded free range live stock13
7285833597migratory farmersFarmer plants multiple plants multicultural in order to grow more crop.14
7285851520patrilineal/patrilocalMove to the husbands town and the husband take care of money and house15
7285862697irrigation systemstransporting water for agriculture16
7285869872metalworkingThe process of working w/ metal to create individual parts.17
7285880449ethnocentrismpreconceptions about a culture from a culture. (rumor)18
7285886993foragingsearching for food and provisions.19
7285898811sedentary agricultureA farm that doesn't change or rotate crops.20
7285906106shifting cultivationplanting crops then leaving the field after harvest so the field can regain nourishment.21
7285919380slash and burn agricultureFarm intensely then leaving.22
7285924582matrilinealThe female is in charge of the house/ money23
7285929111cultural divisionwhen cultural beliefs and activities spread.24
7285936520independent inventionThe person who discovers or invents something.25
7285943717specialization of laborworkers produce more when they occupy specialized roles.26
7285950601gender division of labordelegation of task between genders27
7285959018metallurgy and metalworkingscience of metal and how to use it28
7286013403fertile crescentcrescent shaped region thats moist and fertile29
7286020377gilgameshking of sumerian city.30
7286043768hammurabi'sbabylonian 18th century criminal and civil matters.31
7286053279EgyptNorth East Africa32
7286063143Egyptian Book of the deadPictures, Prayers, Hymns, Incantations, And formulas for the behaviors of the souls of the dead.33
7286077747PyramidsA royal tomb34
7286081573HieroglyphicsAn ancient egyptian way of writing.35
7286100664Indus valley civilizationBronze age civilization in modern day pakistan36
7286116919Early chinasovereign government power was given to a divine source.37
7286135327the celtsA celtic group of the late bronze age.38
7286143077The hittites and iron weaponsthe hittites used weapons mad from bronze bc it was thicker then iron.39
7286155010the assyrians and cavalry warfareruthless warrior people that conquered neighboring countries.40

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