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Early Humans Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Archaeologist | A person who studies and learns about objects in the past |
| Artifacts | An object made by people |
| Artisans | People that make jewelry and weapons |
| Bow | a knot tied with two loops and two loose ends, used especially for tying shoelaces and decorative ribbons |
| Diffusion | Spreading of something more widely |
| Domesticate | tame (an animal) and keep it as a pet or for farm produce |
| Excavation site | the action of excavating something, especially an archaeological site |
| Fire | combustion or burning, in which substances combine chemically with oxygen from the air and typically give out bright light, heat, and smoke |
| History | the study of past events, particularly in human affairs |
| Ice Age | Time when most of the land was covered by ice |
| Hunter- gatherers | A hunter-gatherer is a human living in a society in which most or all food is obtained by foraging |
| Monarchy | a form of government with a monarch at the head |
| Nomads | People with no settled home |
| Prehistory | A time before written records |
| Shrine | A holy place |
| Sickle | a short-handled farming tool with a semicircular blade, used for cutting grain, lopping, or trimming |
| Surplus | More than you need of something |
| Systematic Agriculture | An organized way of growing food on a regular schedule |
| Effects of farming | Negative environmental impacts from unsustainable farming practices include: Land conversion & habitat loss. Wasteful water consumption. Soil erosion and degradation. |
| Differences between Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic Stone Ages | There all different parts of the stone age |
| What it means for an archaeologist to infer. | When they question things like the object, background, materials |
| How did early humans migrate to North America? | Early human migrations and expansions of archaic and modern humans across continents began 2 million years ago with the migration out of Africa of Homo erectus. This was followed by the migrations of other pre-modern humans including |
| The importance of the domestication of plants and animals | Domestication is the process of adapting wild plants and animals for human use. Domestic species are raised for food, work, clothing, medicine, and many other uses.Domesticated plants and animals must be raised and cared for by humans. |
| Women's role after the agricultural revolution. | Spending times cooking, making tools, sewing cloths |
| What form of government formed very soon after communities developed? | Monarchy's |
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