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Modern Wrld vocab #1
for the first quiz this friday
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Hominids | A Family including humans and their immediate |
| Australopithecines | Early hominids living in eastern and southern African four to five million years |
| Homo Habilis | (“handy human”) A direct ancestor of humans, so named because of its increased brain size and ability to make and use simple stone tools for hunting and gathering. |
| Homo Erectus | (‘erect Human’) A hominid that emerged in East Africa probably between 1.8 and 2.2 million years ago. |
| Neanderthals | Hominids who were probably descended from homo erectus populations in europe and who later spread into western and central asia. |
| Denisovans | Hominids related to Neanderthals who lived in eastern-Eurasia |
| Cro-magnons | The first modern, tool using humans in Europe |
| Homo sapiens | (“thinking human”) A hominid who evolved around 400,000 years ago and from whom anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens) evolved around 100,000 years ago. |
| Paleolithic | The old Stone age, which began 100,000 years ago with the first modern humans and lasted for many millennia. |
| Mesolithic | The Middle Stone Age, which began around 15,000 years ago as the glaciers from the final Ice Age began to recede. |
| Neolithic | The New Stone Age, which began between 10,000 and 11,500 years ago with the transition to simple farming. |
| matrilineal kinship | A pattern of kinship that traces descent and inheritance through the female line. |
| animism | The belief that all creatures as well as inanimate objects and natural phenomena have souls and can influence human well-being. |
| polytheism | A belief in many spirits or deities. |
| shamans | Specialists in communicating with or manipulating the supernatural realm. |
| Horticulture | The growing of crops with simple methods and tools. |
| Peasants | The growing of crops with simple methods and tools. |
| States | Formal governments that controlled a recognized territory and exercised power over both people and things |
| pastoral nomadism | An economy based on breeding, rearing, and harvesting livestock. |
| Tribes | Associations of clans that traced descent from a common ancestor. |
| Indo Europeans | Various tribes who all spoke related languages derived from some original common tongue and who eventually settled Europe, Iran, and northern India. |
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