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soc studies
soc strudies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the time period before written records | prehistory |
| the study of human and their development, including human culture and human behavor | Anthropolgy |
| early relatives to modern-day humans | hominid |
| relitives or family members who lived in the past | ancestor |
| "southern ape" and beloved to be one of the first hominids capable to walk on two feet | australopithcus |
| "handy man" and beloved to be one of the first hominids to create stone tools | homo habilis |
| "upright man" and beloved to be the first to walk on two feet ful time, learn to control fire, and migrate outside of africa | homo erectus |
| "wise man"and the group including modern-day humans, which is believed to be the homiod to devlop language | homo sapiens |
| the closest extinct hominid to humans who lived across Europe and central Asia, and belived to be the first hominid to bury the dead | Neanderthalns |
| Austraolpitheucs whoes remains are more than 3 million years old | lucy |
| Homo sapiens from the Stone age who was discovered frozen in a glacier and is one of the oldest mummies in humans history | Otzi the iceman |
| the application of science and enginnering to create tools that improve quality of life | technolgy |
| a handheld object that is designed to help complete a specific task | tool |
| peroid of time where humans invented and primarily used stone tools | Stone ages |
| Old stone age, which occurred cira 2.6 million years-10,000 years ago | Paleolithlic Era |
| New stone age, whiched occurred cira 10,000 years ago and is the most associated with the shift of hunting and gathering to agriculture | Neolithic Era |
| a group of people living together within a community | socitiey |
| people who hunt animals and gather wild plants to aquire food | Hunter-Gathers |
| people without a permant home, either individually or as a community, who move from place to place | nomads |
| movement from one location to another, in order to estalblish a new permamant settlement | migration |
| the total number of people within a specific area, suck as a city, state, or country | population |
| time periods with consisten |