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apwh unit 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| agriculture | crop and animal husbandry |
| agrarian | farming |
| clans | a group of ppl with similar beliefs |
| barbarian | someone uncivilized |
| bureaucracy | a system with a heiarchy, lots of rules |
| civilization | a group that is technologically developed |
| domestication | to tame/ make for the home |
| economy | system of exchanging things or money for things |
| egalitarian | equal |
| foraging | searching for something |
| hiearchy | a set of levels with one higher than the other |
| hunter/gatherer | hunting games and gathering of plants and fruits |
| irrigation | moving water for fertilization |
| monotheism | believing in one god |
| neolithic | new stone |
| nomadic | moving from place to place with no real home |
| pastoral | sheperds who follow herds |
| paleolithic | old sgtone age |
| philosophy | love of wisdom- searching for an understanding of reality and life |
| polytheism | belief in more than one god |
| sedentary | not moving |
| subsitence | the mionimun one needs to live |
| surplus | more than enough for a group of ppl |
| sustenance | food |
| theocracy | a gov ruled by a religion |
| traditional | the way things are supposed to be done and were done in the past |
| urbanization | becoming more based on cities |
| code of hammerabi | a system of laws from Babylon. the first written law code known. eye for an eye. |
| cuneiform | wedge shape writing style in sumer. the first written language known |
| iron age | time when iron was used to make weapons. around 10000BCE to 500CE |
| shang dynesty | first Chinese dynasty |
| Austronesian migration | last phase of the great human migration that established a human precense in every habital region of the earth |
| dream time | hallusinogenic drugs taken by the ppl of Australia to understand how the world was created |
| great goddess | a dominant deity of the paleolithic era |
| ice age | any of a number of cold periods in the earths history. last ice age was about 20,000 years ago |
| jomon culture | a settled paleolithic culture of prehistoric japan, characterized by seaside villages and creation of the worlds earliest pottery |
| neanderthals | homo sapiens that dies about 25,000 years ago, probably killed off by6 smarter homo sapiens |
| paleolithic rock art | used to describe hundreds of npelolithic paintings discovered by spain and france |
| shaman | a person believed to have the ability to act as a bridge between living humans abd supernatural forces, often by means of trances including drugs |
| venus figures | paleolithic carvings of the female form, often with exaggerated boobs, butt, hips and stomach, which may have had religous significance |
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