History trimester A vocab Bach
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- Prehistory
- Covers all time before invention of writing.
- Constantinople
- Center of Eastern christianity and capital of the Byzantine empire.
- Cromagnon
- more advanced than Neanderthals with better technology.
- Forging
- Making metal into desired ore
- Smelting
- The process of removing the metal from the ore.
- Historic Period
- Starts with first writings. Historic period is only about last 5000 years.
- Secondary source
- A written account made some time after the event took place.
- Straits
- Narrow water passages.
- Artifact
- Any object that was made by humans such as tools, jewelry, pottery, and weapons.
- Carbon-14 Dating
- Determines approximate age of anything that was once living.
- Urbanization
- The developement of specialized work that led to growth of cities.
- Split in the churches
- Fifth century disagreements in church led to split in eastern and western churches.
- Nomads
- People who don't have a permanent home, they continually move in search of food.
- Civilization
- An Advanced society marked by developement and use of written language.
- Society
- Any group of people who live together, and share common goals.
- Primary source
- A document, record or eyewitness to an event.
- Agricultural Revolution
- The move from hunting and gathering to farming.
- Neanderthals
- race of men that died out
- History
- The study of what humans have done in the past.
- Constantine
- The first christian Emperor of Rome.