Vocabulary 1
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| 10596882100 | Venus figurines | Depict the female form often with exaggerated breasts buttocks hips and stomachs. | 0 | |
| 10596882101 | Dreamtime | Development of an elaborate and complex outlook on the world known as the Dreamtime | 1 | |
| 10596882102 | Clovis culture | First emerged around 13,000 Year's ago and spread rapidly across much of North America | 2 | |
| 10596882128 | Megafaunal extinction | Dying out of a number of large animal species, including the mammoth and several species of horses and camels, that occurred around 11,000-10,000 years ago, at the end of the Ice Age. The extinction may have been caused by excessive hunting or by the changing climate of the era. | 3 | |
| 10596882103 | Austronesian migrations | People speaking austronesian languages completed the human settlement of the earth quite recently as they settled the islands of the vast Pacific and penetrated the Indian Ocean to Madagascar,off the coast of south at Africa | 4 | |
| 10596882104 | The original affluent society | Paleolithic societies | 5 | |
| 10596882105 | Shamans | People believed to be especially skilled at dealing with the spirit world | 6 | |
| 10596882129 | Trance dance | *Definition:* Ritual where shamans dance and sing special medicine songs. *Significance:* These dances provided supernatural potency. This from god himself. Shows the way they connect themselves to their beliefs. | 7 | |
| 10596882130 | Paleolithic settling down | The process by which some Paleolithic peoples moved toward permanent settlement in the wake of the last Ice Age. Settlement was marked by increasing storage of food and accumulation of goods as well as growing inequalities in society. | 8 | |
| 10596882106 | Gobekli Tepe | Was probably a ceremonial or religious site | 9 | |
| 10596882107 | Fertile Crescent | Wheat and wild pigs existed in the Fertile Crescent but not in the America's | 10 | |
| 10596882131 | Teosinte | The wild ancestor of maize. | 11 | |
| 10596882132 | Diffusion | The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time | 12 | |
| 10596882133 | Bantu migration | The movement of the Bantu peoples southward throughout Africa, spreading their language and culture, from around 500 b.c. to around A.D 1000 | 13 | |
| 10596882108 | Ishi | Last member of his group called the Yahi. The yahi was forced into extinction by the intrusion of more powerful farming herding and civilized societies | 14 | |
| 10596882109 | Banpo | Early agricultural village. Reveal another feature of the age of agriculture | 15 | |
| 10596882110 | Secondary products revolution | A further set of technological changes beginning around 4000 BCE. | 16 | |
| 10596882111 | Pastoral societies | One variation of great significance grew out f the difference between the domestication of plants and the domestication of animals | 17 | |
| 10596882112 | Catalhuyuk | A very early agricultural village in southern turkey which flourished between 7400 and 6000 BCE | 18 | |
| 10596882113 | Chiefdoms | Inherited positions of power and privilege introduced in more distinct element of inequality but unlike later kings chiefs could seldom use force to compel the obedience of their subjects | 19 |
