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| 535970801 | Lucy | found in 1974 in Ethiopia, was an Australopithecus, lived 5.2 million years ago, 2-3 feet tall, was a biped | 0 | |
| 535970802 | Australopithecus | means "southern ape," is a hominid that knuckled walked but could walk on two legs, lived in savannas, and had limited intelligence, lived 5.2 million years ago | 1 | |
| 535970803 | Homo erectus | means "upright-walking human," lived 2 million years ago- 200,000 years ago, learned how to make fires to use for defense cooking and warmth, planned hunting trips, and manipulated the natural environment | 2 | |
| 535970804 | Homo sapiens | means "consciously thinking human," intelligent, dominated environment, lived 200,000 years ago- 100,000 years ago, developed more sophisticated tools | 3 | |
| 535970805 | Paleolithic | "old stone age," started from the evolution of hominids to when Homo sapiens learned agriculture, humans hunted and gathered | 4 | |
| 535970806 | Paleolithic social classes and gender roles | EGALITARIAN people and genders were equal because they didn't carry possessions and everyone contributed to the community | 5 | |
| 535970807 | Homo neandertalensis | lived 40,000-35,000 years ago, had burial ceremonies, less intelligent than homo sapiens | 6 | |
| 535970808 | Venus figurines | cave painting named after Venus the Roman goddess of love, showed interest in fertility | 7 | |
| 535970809 | Neolithic era | "new stone age," 12,000 years ago-6,000 years ago, was the beginning of agriculture | 8 | |
| 535970810 | agriculture revolution | women started to cultivate plants and men started to domesticate animals instead of killing them | 9 | |
| 535970811 | slash and burn agriculture technique | farmers would slash trees in the bark then burn them to the ground leaving fertile soil ( after a few years the ground would lose its fertility and the farmers would have to move) | 10 | |
| 535970812 | earliest know civilization was... | Jericho, located North of the Dead Sea in modern day Israel, farmed, and traded salt and obsidian | 11 | |
| 535970813 | Three early craft industries | pottery- created pots to store food, metallurgy- copper hammered into jewelry and tools, textile industry- learned how to weave cloth and spin thread | 12 | |
| 535970814 | Social classes of Neolithic era | people started to own private property and obtain wealth so classes emerged | 13 | |
| 535970815 | Neolithic religion | focused on fertility, had gods and goddesses which were depicted on pots, believed physical death was not the end | 14 | |
| 535970816 | Two reasons cities differed from towns and villages | cities were larger and more complex and cities served a region instead serving only its citizens like towns and villages | 15 | |
| 535970817 | first cities started... | in modern day Iraq near the Tigris and Euphrates rivers | 16 | |
| 536799478 | Out of Africa theory | Homo erectus evolved into Homo sapiens in Africa and then spread | 17 | |
| 536799479 | Mulit-Regional theory | Homo erectus evolved into Homo sapiens simultaneously in different regions at the same time | 18 | |
| 536872226 | Hominids | A creature belonging to the family Hominidae | 19 | |
| 536872227 | Ardi | a knuckle walker who could walk on two feet, discovered 1994-1997 in an Afar rift in Ethiopia, lived 4.4 million years ago, was an omnivore | 20 | |
| 536872228 | Natufians | prominent paleolithic settlement, in eastern Mediterranean, collected wild wheat and took animals from antelope herds | 21 | |
| 536872229 | Jomon | prominent paleolithic settlement, in central Japan, harvested wild buckwheat and fished | 22 | |
| 536872230 | Chinook | prominent paleolithic settlement, in the Pacific northwest region of North America, flourished because of wild berries, acorns, and massive salmon rums in local rivers | 23 | |
| 536872231 | Lascaux | best known cave paintings; in France | 24 | |
| 536872232 | Catal Huyuk | prominent village because of its location near obsidian deposits | 25 | |
| 536872233 | Calendars and life cycles | people observed when the best times were to plant and harvest crops and they developed a calendar based on weather | 26 | |
| 536890187 | Maslows hierarchy of needs | physiological (food, water), safety (shelter), love belonging (friendship, soulmate), esteem (happiness), self-actulization | 27 |
