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world history seme
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The period of time before recorded history was known as | prehistory |
| The transition from prehistory to modern history came about with the invention of | writing |
| the remains of living things are called | fossils |
| man made objects that have historical significance are called | artifacts |
| someone who studies fossils is a | paleontologist |
| someone who studies artifacts is a | archaeologist |
| prehistoric people who moved from one place to another to follow their food source | nomads |
| the first form of writing occurred by pressing papyrus seeds into wet clay. this is | cuneiform |
| early civilizations always developed around | rivers |
| the development of writing led to the creation of a calendar system. the two early calendars were | gregorian and julian |
| bc stand for | before christ |
| ad stands for | anno domini |
| the reason for measuring time with bce and ce was not to reference | religion |
| the first law code was | hammurabis code |
| dividing a group of people working together into diff tasks that they specialize in | division of labor |
| classifying people by rank in society is called | social hierarchy |
| the hard work of farming led people to pass of to work of others | slavery |
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