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WHistory Ch1
world history chapter 1 quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What were the names of the archaeologists who spent a lot of time in E Africa. | Louis and Mary Leakey |
| Who were Louis and Mary Leakey | -archaeologists -found human bones from previously undiscovered civilization |
| Where did Louis and Mary spend a lot of their time | Olduvai Gorge in East Africa |
| prehistory | period of time before writing was developed |
| archaeology | study of past societies through the analysis of what people left behind |
| artifacts | tools, pottery, paintings etc. |
| fossils | remains (human and animals) |
| anthropology | study of human life and culture |
| Radioactive carbon | (c14) used to date artifacts and fossils.. all things absorb radioactive carbon as time goes on. |
| how did radioactive carbon help us? what did it determine? | it determined their age (now DNA) after death living things slowly lose C14.. accurate to about 50,000 years. |
| What are the four stages of development | Hominids Homo Erectus Homo Sapiens Homo Sapiens Sapiens |
| Hominids | -Africa - 3-4million years ago - Australopithecus "southern apes" - Donald Johanson discovered them |
| Homo Erectus "upright human beings" | -1.5 million year ago -left Africa migrated to Europe -used tools -use of FIRE!! |
| Homo Sapiens "wise human beings" | -neanderthals -Germany 100,000-30,000 BC -stone tools -buried dead (after life belief) -clothes of animal skin -killed for food |
| Homo Sapiens Sapiens "wise wise human beings" | -look like us -Africa 150,200,000 years ago -migrated -10,000 BC all over (map page 22) |
| 1.Paleolithic Age | -old stone 2.5 million-10,000 BC -nomads -hunters/gatherers -FIRE (homo erectus) -Simple stone tools |
| nomads | people who move from place to place |
| 2. Ice Ages | -Created Art -Lascaux (SW France) -cave art paintings -25-12,000 BC |
| 3. Neolithic Age | -new stone -domesticated animals -settle down -communities -systematic agriculture -catal huyuk -artisans -trade |
| Domestication | -Human use of animals (food, clothing) -work animals -single most important development in Human history -Greater control over enviroment -give up nomadic ways -settle in communities |
| Growing of crops | -Developed 8-5,000 years BC -spread from SW Asia-SE Europe-Central Europe coastal regions of Mediterranean- Nile Region of Egypt -Western Hemisphere -Mexico/Central America -Meso Americans (bean, squash,maize (corn) |
| 4. Bronze Age | made bronze more 3-1200 BC |
| Neolithic Farming Villages | -Rise to permanent settlements -oldest: SW Asia (Middle East) Jericho Palestine near Dead Sea 8,000 BC |
| Catal Huyuk | -largest 32 acres, 6,000 people, walls, brick houses, no streets/ walked on roofs -Grew more crops than needelt -artisans -started to trade -religion- shrines, statues, buildings polytheism (many gods) |
| artisans | skilled workers (weapons, jewelery, tools) |
| End of Neolithic Age | -4-3,000 BC -use of metal for molding -copper was 1st -Bronze was harder and more durable |
| Emergence of Civilization | |
| culture | way of life people follow |
| civilization | complex culture, common elements |
| 6 Characters of Civilization | cities government religion social structure use of writing artistic activity |
| Thermo luminiscence dating | measures the electrons in the soil 200,000 yrs. |
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