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AA Early Humans
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Culture | refers to a society's knowledge, art, beliefs, customs, and values. |
| Artifacts | are objects that people in the past made or used, such as coins, pottery and tools |
| Hominid | human like being |
| Paleolithic era | first part of stone age |
| Nomads | moving from place to place as they followed migrating animal herds |
| Hunter-gatherers | hunting,fishing and gathering wild plants, berries and other foods |
| Animism | the belief that all things in nature have spirits |
| Neolithic era | era of more sophisticated tools |
| Domestication | growing or breeding of plants and animals to make them more useful |
| Pastoralists | people who ranged over wide areas and kept herds of livestock which depend as resources |
| Megaliths | huge stones used for burial purposes |
| Bronze age | people started making things of bronze |
| Surplus | excess of food |
| Division of labor | each worker specializes in a particular task or job |
| Traditional economy | economic decisions are made based on custom tradition |
| Civilization | is a complex and organized society |
| Artisans | skilled craftspeople, devoted their time to crafts such as basketry. |
| Cultural diffusion | spread of beliefs, customs and technology from a culture |
| Neolithic Revolution | to shift to farming |
| Ice age | periods of freezing |