History Mid-term
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- What are the 5 themes of Geography
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1. Places
2. Human Environmental Interactions
3. Region
4. Movement
5. Location - Who is the oldest human found in Africa.
- Lucy (Lucy in the Sky of Diamonds)
- Hominid
- Any human creature that walks upright
- Paleolithic Age
- Old Stone Age
- Neolithic Age
- New Stone Age
- Technology
- using skills and ideas to improve life
- homo sapiens
- modern form of humans
- Nomads
- people who didnt belong to a particular tribe and wandered looking for food + shelter
- Hunter/gatherer
- people who went out and either followed a herd of animals for food or went gathering for plants to eat
- domestication
- the taming of wild animals for human use
- institution
- a long-lasting pattern of organization in a community
- civilization
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a complex culture with 5 characteristics
1. advanced cities
2. specialized workers
3. complex institutions
4. record keeping
5. advanced technology - barter
- exchange of goods not using money but by trading
- What clues do bones, artifacts, and fossils give us about early people?
- they tell us how people lived, what they looked like, how intelligent they were, and possibly how they died
- What factors played a role in the origins of agriculture
- The factors could have possibly been global warming (longer warming seasons), or the need for more food
- What role did irrigation systems play in the development of civilizations
- Irrigation systems allowed civilizations to grow because it allowed people to start to specialize in certain jobs = inventions = led to social classes, language, trading, power etc.
- How did Ur's agrgicultural way of life foster the development of civilizations there?
- With the development of irrigation systems- > there was a surplus of food which allowed people to start to specialize in certain jobs - leading to social classes + complex institution (e.g. govnt, social classes, temples, etc.)
- The five themes of geography are ...
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1. Places- indicates what an area looks like- physical + human forms
2. Human Environmental Interactions- human interactions cause population
3. Region- area with common characteristics
4. Movement- transfer of people, goods, and ideas from one place to another
5. Location- where in the world a certain area is