world history early man
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Australopithecines | 3 million year old human like creatures discovered by Donald C. Johanson |
| Homo Sapien | about 200,000 year old speices of humans |
| Homo Erectus | earliest known humans to have a human like body |
| Hominid | an erect species capable of standing on two legs |
| Neandrethal | human species living about 30,000 to 100,000 years ago, powerful builds, heavy jaws, thick eyebrow ridges, and large noses |
| Cro-Magnon | 30,000-35,000 years ago a human species smarter and more artistic than the neandrethals, better equiped to survive, first cave paintings |
| Pre-Historic | before history was recorded |
| Paleolithic | the old stone age, during the neandrethals and Cro-Magnon peoples era |
| Neolithic | the new stone age, people learned to make wood, sharper tools and domesticated animals, beginning of agruculture (firts settlements) |
| Civilization | technical skills, government, cities, division of labor, calendar, writing |
| Artifact | material objects shaped by human beings |
| Neolithic Revolution | the piont in the Neolithic age in whitch humans started producing food and were no longer nomads |
| Artisons | skilled craftwork |
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