Early civilizations
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- domestication of animals
- taming of animals
- causes of agricultural revolution
- population increase and decrease in the number of game animals
- Middle east (fertile cresent)
- farming developed in the __________
- Homo Erectus
- lived 1.6 million years ago, waled upright, and first to use fire and were the first hominids to fove from africa
- archaelogists
- scientist who learn about early people by excavating and studying traces of early settlements
- Neolithic food
- farming and domestication of animals stay in one place
- agricultural revolution
- the shift from food gathering to a food producing culture
- Homo sapiens
- emerged in Africa between 100,000 - 400,000 years ago they migrated to Eurasia, the americas, and australia
- slash and burn farming
- cut treees and grasses and burned them to clear a field then the remaining ashes fertilized the soil which caused the planting of crops for a year or two
- paleolithic dwellings
- no permanent dwellings but mostly caves
- paleolithic religion
- world was full of spirits, cave paintings, buried dead with great care
- artifacts
- bones, tools, and jewelry
- Homo Habilis
- appeared in east africa around 2.5 million years ago known as the first toolmakers
- carbon dating
- measures radioactivity which determines the age of object
- neolithic technology
- pottery, metal working, copper (jewelry), weaving skills, domesticated animals and had more possessions
- Paleolithic food
- men hunted and women gathered and nomadic
- neolithic dwellings
- built prmanent dwellings to stay around to tend their crops
- Cro- Magnons
- identical to modern humans- planned their hunts, advanced skill in spoken languages
- neolithic religion
- buried dead in earthen tombs, beads, pottery, weaving cloth, calendars, ( know when to plant crops)
- Neanderthals
- religious beliefs, rituals, built temporary shelters, hunt, had sophisticated tools
- paleolithic technology
- digging sticks, spears, axes made out of stone, bone and wood+ fire ( heat and eat)+ oral language
- cultural diffusion
- civilizations share information and ideas with each other when the interact (trade)
- city-states to empires
- city-states conquer other city-states
- stonehenge
- an archaeological site in england