| Term | Definition |
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Hominids |
creatures that walk on two feet including humans |
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Longitude |
imaginary lines that measure north and south of the equattor |
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Latitude |
imaginary lines that measre east and west of the equator |
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Geography |
the study of earth and its people |
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Lucy |
She was the first human. |
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Paleolithic Age |
This is the old stone age which lasted from 2.5 million to 8,00 B.C. |
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Mesolithic Age |
This is the midddlestone age which lasted happened during 10,000 and 6,000 B.C |
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Neotithic Age |
This was the new stone age which lasted from 8,000 to 3,000 B.C. |
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Hunter-Gatherers |
They hunted animals and gathered plants for food |
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Migration |
The act of moving from one place to another |
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Religion |
The worship odf G-d, gods or spirits |
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Technology |
It consists all of the ways in which people apply knowledge |
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Domesticate |
Humans learned to grow and tend plants |
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Slash and burn |
to cut a plant and burn it to make soil |
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Irrigation |
The watering of crops |
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Surplus |
An extra of something that you trade |
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Social class |
A board group in society having common economic, cultural, or political status |
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Government |
a system for creating order and providing leadership |
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Examples osf socialized skills |
farming |
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Mesopatamia |
The land between two rivers |
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Floodplain |
flat land bordering a river |
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Silt |
fine, fertile soil deposited by a river |
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Drought |
a period of little rainfall, in which growing crops become difficult |
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Two rivers |
Tigris and Euphrates |
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city-state |
a political unit that includes a city and its nearby farmlands |
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ziggurat |
an ancient sumerian or babylonian temple that rose in a series of steplike levels |
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Polytheism |
a belief in many G-ds or goddesses |
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King |
the highest-ranking leader of a group of people |
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Civilazation |
a human society with an advanced level of development in a social and political organization and in the arts and sciences |
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Sumer |
an ancient region of southern mesopatamia, in which civilazation arose around 3300 B.C. |