Hisotry
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- What is Geography?
- the study of poeople, their environments, and their resources available to them
- Latitude
- measure distance from north to south
- What are the 5 themes of geography?
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1. Location
2. Place
3. Human-environment
4. Movement
5. Region - What is prehistory?
- period of time before people invented the system of writing
- What is anthropology?
- origin and development of people and their societies
- What is culture?
- way of life of a society
- What is archaeology?
- specialized branch of anthropology which studies the past people and thier cultures
- What is an artifact?
- object made by himan beings
- What is technology?
- skills and tools people use to meet their basic needs
- What are historians?
- people who study how people lived in the past
- What is another term for the Old stone age and what years was it in?
- the Paleolithic age dates from 2 million B.C. the time of the first stone toolmakers, to about 10,000 B.C.
- What are nomads?
- paleolithic people who moved from place to place as they followed game animals and ripening fruits
- What are glaciers?
- sheets of ice
- What is animism?
- About 30,000 years ago, people first started to believe in a spiritual world, and this world was full of spitit that might reside in animals, objects or dream
- Who, when, where, and how did people start farming?
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1. No one know when and how
2. People believe it started it Middle East, others believe its started individually
3. Women probably figured out the farming process - What is the "farming" revolution called?
- Neolithic agricultural revolution
- What is domesticate?
- to tame
- what is a civilization?
- a complex, highly organized social order
- what is surplus?
- extra food
- what is polytheistic?
- believe in many gods
- what are artisans?
- skilled craftworkers
- What is a pictogram?
- simple drawing that looked like the object represented
- what it a city state?
- a political unit that inculdes the city and its surrounding lands and villages
- what are steppes?
- sparse, dry grassland
- what is cultural diffusion?
- spread of ideas
- What is longitute?
- mearuse distance east to west...Prime Meridian through Greenwich, England
- what is silt?
- soil