Prehistoric Times and the Concepts of History – Flashcards
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Period of the human past before writing was invented
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prehistory
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the story of the human past
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history
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development that separates prehistory from recorded history
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writing
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folktales that explain the past
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legends
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the way of life of a people
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culture
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the number of people who live in a given area
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population
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periods when the northern and southern continents were buried under ice and show
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Ice Age
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Before the birth of Christ
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BC
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Anno Domini, the years after the birth of Chirst
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AD
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First period of human history
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Stone Age
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Second period of human history
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Bronze Age
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Third period of human history
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Iron Age
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Continent where the earliest humanlike creatures have been found
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Africa
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earliest homo sapiens
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neanderthals
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prehistoric people who closely resembled modern humans
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cro-magnons
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characteristics that allowed humans to use their hands freely
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erect posture
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skills that allowed humans to pass along knowledge
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language
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earliest (Paleolithic) ways of getting food
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hunting and gathering
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a shaped stone
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tool
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earliest clothing material
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animal skin
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resource used both for cooking and as a weapon
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fire
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neanderthal shelters
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caves
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huge wooly creature, often hunted
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mammoth
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Person who studies human past
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historian
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information organized for analysis
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data
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scientist who studies the earth
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geologist
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Scientists who studies the remains of ancient people and civilizations
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archeologist
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society centered around cities
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civilization
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an object made by early people
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artifact
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huge, slowly moving masses of ice and snow
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glaciers
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years in between glacial times
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interglacial periods
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exceptionally long period of time
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eon
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period of time figured form some particular date
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era
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the old stone age
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paleolithic
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the middle stone age
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mesolithic
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characteristics that allowed humans to store and use more information than animals
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large brains
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one of the facial characteristics that made a neanderthal different from a Cro-Magnon
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heavy jaw
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man with ability
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homo habilis
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man who walks upright
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homo erectus
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man who thinks
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homo sapiens
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how neanderthals disposed of their dead
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burial
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prehistoric wall art
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cave paintings
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neolithic ways of securing food
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farming and herding
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new neolithic living arrangements
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villages
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neolithic invention used for cookware and food storage
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pottery
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neolithic clothing material
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cloth
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historian devoted to a single branch of study or research
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specialist
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digging into the earth to find ancient remains
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excavating
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to decode an ancient language
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decipher
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careful hunting for facts or evidence
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research
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idea about how something happened
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theory
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the new stone age
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neolithic
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period of 1000 years
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millennium
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these were formerly used to date archaeological sites
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tree rings
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radioactive element used to date ancient objects
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carbon-14
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man who developed a way to date ancient objects using a radioactive element
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W. F. Libby
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prehistoric dweller on the Southeast Asian island
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Java Man
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prehistoric dweller of China
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peking
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When the Homo sapiens emerged
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100,000 years ago
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when the Cro-Magnon people emerged
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40,000 years ago
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the color of this depended on the climate where people lived
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skin
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neolithic material that began to replace stone
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metal
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neolithic invention that was the basis of transportation
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wheel
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neolithic invention that was a machine to weave cloth
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loom
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material mixed with clay to produce pottery
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straw or dung
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harden lava from volcanoes used as mirrors
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obsidian
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to determine how old a historical find is
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to date
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scientist who studies languages and written records
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philologist
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scientists who study the origin and development of human beings
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anthropologist
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term for father-related society
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patrilineal
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term for mother-related society
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matrilineal
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archaeologist's term for the remains of ancient households
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kitchen midden
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the three periods of the Stone Age
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old, middle and new
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the shift from food hunting to food producing
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neolithic revolution
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when the Stone Age ended
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4000 BC
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When the Neolithic Age began
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6000 BC
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Years of the Paleolithic Age
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8000 to 6000 Bc
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people who have lived in Australia since prehistoric times
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aborigines
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River in western Germany where Neanderthal remains were first found
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Neander
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earliest humanlike creature
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zinjanthropus
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possible age of earliest human-like remains
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1750000
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site of the oldest known village
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Jericho
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Ancient Turkish village
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Catal Huyuk
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Method of shaping stone in the Old Stone Age
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chipping
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method of shaping stone in the New Stone Age
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grinding
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neanderthal religious belief about death
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life after death
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first domesticated animal
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dog
