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JF Early Humans
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| culture | society's knowledge, art, beliefs, customs, and values |
| artifacts | objects that people in the past made or used, such as coins, pottery, and tools |
| Paleolithic Era | Old Stone Age |
| hominid | humans and early humanlike beings that walked upright |
| nomads | people who move place as they followed migrating animal herds |
| hunter-gatherers | people who hunted, fished, and gathered wild plants, berries, nuts and other foods |
| animism | the belief that all things have spirits |
| Neolithic Era | New Stone Age |
| Neolithic Revolution | 10,000 years ago humans learned to farm and the development of agriculture radically changed how humans lived |
| domestication | the selective growing or breeding of plants and animals to make them more useful to humans |
| pastoralists | people who ranged over wide areas and kept herds of livestock on which they depended for food and other items |
| megaliths | huge stones |
| Bronze Age | people began to make items from bronze rather than stone |
| surplus | excess |
| division of labor | economic arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular task or job |
| traditional economy | economic decisions are made based on custom, tradition, or ritual |
| civilization | complex and organized society |
| artisans | skilled craftspeople |
| cultural diffusion | spread of beliefs, ideas, customs, and technology from one custom to another |
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