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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. |
| Hominid | Humans and early humanlike beings that walked upright. |
| Paleolithic Era | The first part of the Stone Age. |
| Nomads | People that moved from place to place as they followed migrating animal herds. |
| Hunter-Gatherers | Hunting, Fishing, and gathering wild plants, berries, nuts, and other foods. |
| Animism | The belief that all things in nature have spirits. |
| Neolithic Era | New Stone age. |
| Neolithic Revolution | Shift to farming. |
| 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, used for burial or spiritual purposes. |
| Bronze Age | The age where people made items from bronze.(After Stone Age) |
| Surplus | Excess of food |
| Division of Labor | The 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 organised society. |
| Artisans | Skilled craftspeople |
| Cultural Diffusion | The spread of ideas, beliefs, customs, and technology from one culture to another. |
| Out of Africa | The thought that humanity originated in Africa. |
| The Ice Age | Long periods of freezing weather. |