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| 224789183 | cultural diffusion | The spread of cultural elements from one society to another. | 0 | |
| 224789184 | demography | Study of population. | 1 | |
| 224789185 | intervening obstacles | Physical features that halt or slow migration from one place to another. | 2 | |
| 224789186 | "marker events" | Events that change the course of history. | 3 | |
| 224789187 | migrations | Permanent moves to new locations that have occurred on local, regional, and global levels. | 4 | |
| 224789188 | The Myth of Continents | Book focusing on unexamined assumptions about continents. | 5 | |
| 224789189 | periodization | Historian's attempt to break down history into manageable segments. | 6 | |
| 224789190 | perspective | Point of view. | 7 | |
| 224789191 | push factors | Factors that encourage people to move from the region that they live in. | 8 | |
| 224789192 | pull factors | Factors that attract people to move to a new region. | 9 | |
| 224789193 | agriculture | The deliberate tending of crops and livestock in order to produce food and fiber. | 10 | |
| 224789194 | bipedalism | The preference for walking erect on two limbs rather than four. | 11 | |
| 224789195 | Catal Hayuk | A large neolithic city in modern Turkey. They used stone and bone for tools but died out before metal was used. It was from 6500 B.C.E. - 5700 B.C.E. | 12 | |
| 224789196 | division of labor | Division of work into a number of separate tasks to be performed by different workers. | 13 | |
| 224789197 | horticulture | The use of hand tools to raise crops. | 14 | |
| 224789198 | independent invention | Development of the same culture trait or pattern in separate cultures as a result of comparable needs and circumstances (no cultural diffusion involved). | 15 | |
| 224789199 | Jericho | A town on the Jordan River that grew into a small city by 4000 B.C.E. | 16 | |
| 224789200 | Lucy | The skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis, or a species within the category of hominid, that was discovered in 1974. | 17 | |
| 224789201 | Neolithic (or Agricultural) Revolution | The changeover from food gathering to food producing that serves as a "marker event" that transformed human society and the natural environment. | 18 | |
| 224789202 | Paleolithic Age (Old Stone Age) | A time when hominids used refined tools. | 19 | |
| 224789203 | pastoralism | A nomadic agricultural lifestyle based on herding domesticated animals. | 20 | |
| 224789204 | polytheism | The belief in multiple gods. | 21 | |
| 224789205 | primary sources | Original evidence from the time period. | 22 | |
| 224789206 | specialization | The special line of work an individual adopted as their career. | 23 | |
| 224789207 | surplus | A quantity much larger than is needed. | 24 |
