Pre history
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Latitude | the distance north or south of the equator |
| Longitude | the distance east or west of the prime meridian |
| Prehistory | long period of time before people invented systems or writing |
| Anthropology | the study of development of people and their societies |
| Culture | the way of life of a society that is handed down from one generation to another |
| Archaeology | the study of people, past and cultures |
| Artifacts | objects made by human beings |
| Technology | tools and skills people used to meet their basic needs |
| Historians | people who study how people lived in the past |
| Nomads | people who moved from place to place following game animals and ripening fruit |
| Glaciers | sheets of ice |
| Animism | the belief that spirits and forces may reside in animals, objects or dreams |
| Domesticate | to tame animals |
| Paleolithic Age | the earliest period of ancient history |
| Neolithic Age | a new period where farming began |
| civilization | a complex, highly organized social order |
| surplus | extra |
| polytheistic | the belief in many gods |
| artisans | skilled craft workers |
| pictogram | simple drawing that looked like the object it represented |
| scribes | specially trained people who knew how to read and write |
| city-state | a political unit that included a city and its surrounding lands and villages |
| empire | a group of states or territories controlled by one ruler |
| steppes | nomadic herders that tended cattle |
| cultural diffusion | the spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another |
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