2949719663 | anthropologist | a student of the history and science of mankind | 0 | |
2949722889 | archeologist | A person who looks for bones, tools, and artifacts from people who lived long ago to find out how people lived then | 1 | |
2949724934 | culture | Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people. | 2 | |
2949725979 | horticulture | cultivation of crops carried out with simple hand tools such as digging sticks or hoes | 3 | |
2949727039 | agriculture | The art and science of producing food from the land and tending livestock for the purpose of human consumption. | 4 | |
2949735180 | bronze age | a period of human culture between the Stone Age and the Iron Age, characterized by the use of weapons and implements made of bronze | 5 | |
2949737747 | bureacracy | A system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives | 6 | |
2949740971 | revolution | Any large change in a society or world | 7 | |
2949751075 | neolithic revolution | The switch from nomadic lifestyles to a settled agricultural lifestyle is this revolution. | 8 | |
2949755402 | paleolithic era | called the old stone age (from 10,000 to 2.5 million years ago); they were concerned with food supply; they used stone as well as bone tools; they were nomadic hunters and gatherers. | 9 | |
2949756603 | nomadic | Moving from place to place with no permanent home | 10 | |
2949760408 | neanderthals | first to hunt in groups; care for the sick; have ritual burials | 11 | |
2949775257 | subsistence farming | Producing almost all the goods needed by the farm family, usually with a little extra for sale | 12 | |
2949784637 | Animism | first religion polytheistic shamans plant and animal gods | 13 | |
2949787312 | hierarchy | A system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority. | 14 | |
2949789303 | Mesolithic era | time between paleolithic and neolithic era | 15 | |
2949792677 | Shamans | person that can contact the plant and animal spirits in Animistic religion | 16 | |
2949800897 | domestication of plants and animals | breeding food and labor were the three main improvements that came with this | 17 | |
2949812704 | pictogram | Earliest written symbols that represented early ideas | 18 | |
2949816404 | historic method | comprises the techniques and guidelines by which historians use primary sources and other evidence, including the evidence of archaeology, to research and then to write histories in the form of accounts of the past. | 19 | |
2949850211 | economy | the wealth and resources of a country or region, especially in terms of the production and consumption of goods and services. | 20 | |
2949852619 | divine right | ancient politicians claiming the gods chose him to be their ruler | 21 |
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