Vocab on the study guide for chapter 1.
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| 204039409 | Class Goals | To be ready for the AP test, to enhance critical thinking skills,to understand the importance of history and how it relates to the modern world. What do we learn from history? Why does it matter?, and to focus on cooperative learning | 0 | |
| 204039410 | Historiography | The study and debate of history | 1 | |
| 204039411 | Pre-History | The period before the invention of writing | 2 | |
| 204039412 | Australopithecus | Means "southern ape". Oldest known ancestor of humans; it lived from around four million B.C. to one million years ago. It could walk on hind legs | 3 | |
| 204039413 | Homo Erectus | Means "upright walking man" Lived from two million to 200,000 years ago. Used hand axes and learned how to control fire. | 4 | |
| 204039414 | Homo Sapiens | "means consciously thinking human" first apeared 250,000 years ago. Used sophisticated tools | 5 | |
| 204039415 | Homo Sapiens Sapiens | subspecies of Homo sapiens, most resembles modern humans | 6 | |
| 204039416 | Paleolithic | Old stone age, a long period of time before the invention of agriculture | 7 | |
| 204039417 | Hominid | A creature belonging to the species hominidea. Includes humans and human like species | 8 | |
| 204039418 | Hunting and Gathering | no private property; no wealth; women foraged and men hunted. | 9 | |
| 204039419 | Neandertal | These early humans lived from 100,000 years ago to 35,000 years ago.during the paleolithic age | 10 | |
| 204039420 | Cro-Magnon | lived 40,000 years ago; skeleton of modern man, planned hunts, and was smarter than the neanderthal | 11 | |
| 204039421 | Venus figurines | Small, paleolithic statues of women with exaggerated sexual features. Expressed interest in fertility. | 12 | |
| 204039422 | Neolithic Age | The New Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC | 13 | |
| 204039423 | Agricultural Transition | The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering | 14 | |
| 204039424 | Catal Huyuk | an Neolithic villiage in Anatolia (turkey). Believed to be one of the first towns | 15 | |
| 204039425 | Metallurgy | the science and technology of metals | 16 |
