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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Hominid | Early humans or humanlike creatures |
| Artifacts | Objects made by human beings |
| Culture | Beliefs, knowledge, and patterns of living that a group acquire by living together |
| Nomads | Person who wanders place to place in search of food. |
| Domestication | Taming of animals |
| Hunter-Gathers | Early people who lived by hunting animals and gathering plants for food. |
| Lucy | Female hominid found by Donald Johansen in 1974 in Ethiopia. |
| Mary Leakey | Archeologist- Great Rift Valley-found oldest hominid 1.75 million years old- changed where people thought humans orginated from |
| Paleolithic | Old Stone Age |
| Mesolithic | Middle Stone Age |
| Neolithic | New Stone Age |
| Neolithic Revolution | Went from food gathering to food producing. |
| Civilization | Complex culture that can produce surplus of food, establish large towns with a government, and has people that do different jobs. |
| Division of Labor | Characteristics of civilizations in which different people perform different jobs. |
| Artisans | Skilled craft worker |
| Cultural Diffusion | The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another. |
| AD | anno domini-in the year of the lord |
| BC | Before Christ |
| HINT | River civilizations- Huang-Ho, Indus, Nile, and Tigris-Euphrates |
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