AP World History Flashcards

33685778	Palaeoanthropologist	a student of the earliest humans and the setting in which they lived
33685779	Myth	an interpretive story of the past that cannot be verified historically but has a deep moral message.
33685780	Australopithecus	A genus of bipedal hominids living in Africa approximately 2 million years ago; first bipedal hominids
33685781	Homo Habilis	larger brain than Australopithecus, more human - like face and pelvis, homo - habilis means "tool man", could remember info, plan ahead, and could hunt, uncapable of speech
33685782	Homo Erectus	"first upright man" - more intelligent and adaptable than homo habilis, skillful hunters, invented more sophsticated tools for digging, scapring, and cutting. first hominids to migrate, first to use fire, first to provide warmth, cook, and frighten away attacking animals. developed the beginning of spoken language, named objects, places, animlas, and plant and exchanged ideas