Pre-History Terms
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- cooperative
- working or acting together willingly for a common purpose
- prodigious
- extraordinary in size, amount, or extent
- millenium
- 1,000 years
- pastoralism
- the practive of herding
- reciprocal
- given or felt by towards each other, mutual, complementary
- Paleolithic
- Old Stone Age, 2 million-10,000 B.C.E.
- classical
- pertaining to Greek and Roman antiquity
- domestication
- taming of animals
- entrepreneurial
- a person who organizes and manages enterprise, usually with initiative and risk
- shamanistic
- the animistic religion in which mediation between the visible and spirit worlds are effected by shamans (religious leaders)
- aristocratic
- a government of a class of persons holding exceptional rank and privelages
- ostracism
- temporary banishment of a citizen, decided upon by popular vote
- democracy
- a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them
- philosophy
- the rational investigation of the truth and principles of being, knowledge, and conduct
- contemporary
- modern
- industrialized
- the development of business activities in a society
- vindictive
- disposed or inclined to revenge
- prosperous
- chracterized by financial success or good fortune
- technology
- the use of people's current knowledge to help make things easier
- prominence
- standing out beyond the surface
- cultivated
- prepared and used for raising crops
- prominence
- relative improtance
- stupendously
- amazingly large or great
- superficial
- being at, on, or near the surface
- Neolithic
- New Stone Age, 3,500-2,000 B.C.E.
- colonization
- the act of forming a colony and settling
- zenith
- a highest point or state
- archaeology
- the study of past human life and culture by the recovery and examination of artifacts
- commercial
- prepared or done with sole or chief emphasis on profit or success
- Mesolithic
- Middle Stone Age, 10,000-3,500 B.C.E.
- catastrophic
- a sudden and widespread disastrous event
- imperealism
- extending rule or authority of a nation over foreign countries
- anthropology
- the study of cultures
- sophisticated
- (of a person, ideas, taste, manners) altered by education or experience, so as to be wise
- ecological
- the science of the relationships between organisms and their environments
- incursion
- an aggressive entrance into a foreign country
- antiquity
- the quality of being ancient
- attributes
- an object associated with and serving to identify a character, person, or office; qualities
- artifact
- a handmade object from an earlier time
- excavations
- an area in which excavating has been done or is in process, as an archaeological site