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Chapter 1 Review - The Beginnings of Civilization
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9th Grade
09/13/2010

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Archaeologists
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people who dig at sites where people have left traces
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Anthropologists
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people who expand and revise our picture of the prehistoric past
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Artifacts
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Objects that people in the past made or used, such as coins pottery and tools
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Hominids
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Humans and early humanlike beings that walked upright
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Paleolithic Era
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"old stone age"
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Nomads
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people who moved place to place as they followed migrating animal herds
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Hunter-Gatherers
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people who hunted fished and gathered wild plants berries and nuts
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Neolithic Era
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"the new stone age"
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Domestication
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the selective growing or breeding of plants and animals to make them more useful to humans
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Surplus
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excess of food
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Artisians
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skilled craftspeople
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Cultural Diffusion
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the spread of ideas beliefs customs and technology from one culuture to another
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Otzi
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the iceman
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Austrlopithecine
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"southeren ape"
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Homo Habilis
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"handy man" used crude stone tookd for chopping and scraping
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Homo Erectus
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"upright man" used early stone tools learned to control fire migrated out of Africa
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Homo Sapiens
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"wise man" migrated around the world learned to create fire and developed a language
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Ca
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Catal Huyuk
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the largest neolithic site that archaeologists have found
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What are the 7 Characteristics of a civilization?
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-cities
-government
-religion
-social classes
-specialization of labor
-writing and record keeping
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