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Global 1 Period 7
Chapter 1 Test Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the period of time before writing was invented | prehistory |
| a person who studies how people lived in the past | historian |
| an object made by human beings | artifact |
| the study of the origins and development of people and their societies | anthropology |
| the way of life of a society, which is handed down from one generation to the next by learning and experience | culture |
| the study of people and cultures through their material remains | archaeology |
| in the 1930s she was an anthropologist that started searching for clues to the human past in a deep canyon in Tanzania called Olduvai Gorge along with Louis Leakey | Mary Leakey |
| in the 1930s he was an anthropologist that started searching for clues to the human past in a deep canyon in Tanzania called Olduvai Gorge along with Mary Leakey | Louis Leakey |
| a gorge in Tanzania in which many hominid remains have been found | Olduvai Gorge |
| the skills and tools people use to meet their basic needs | technology |
| an anthropologist in 1974 found evidence of early hominids in Ethiopia got enough of one skeleton to piece it together and look at it he named it Lucy after a beatles song she was a upright walker about 4 feet (1.2 meters) tall. | Donald Johanson |
| the era of prehistory that lasted from 2 million B.C. to about 9000 B.C. | Old Stone Age |
| the era of prehistory that lasted from at least 2 million B.C. to about 9000 B.C.; also called the Old Stone Age | Paleolithic Period |
| the final era of prehistory, which began about 9000 B.C.; also called the Neolithic Period | New Stone Age |
| the final era of prehistory which began about 9000 B.C.; also called the New Stone Age | Neolithic Period |
| a person who moves from place to place in search of food | nomad |
| the belief that spirits and forces live within animals,objects,or dreams | animism |
| the period of time during which the introduction of agriculture led people to transition from nomadic to settled life | Neolithic Revolution |
| to tame animals and adapt crops so they are best suited to use by humans | domesticate |
| one of the world's first villages,established in modern-day Turkey around 7000 B.C | Cataalhuyuk |
| the world's first village, established in the modern-day West Bank between 10,000 and 9000 B.C | Jericho |
| an amount that is more than needed,excess | surplus |
| a type of economy that relies on habit,custom, or ritual and tends not to change over time | traditional economy |
| a complex, highly organized social order | civilization |
| sparse,dry,treeless grassland | steppe |
| believing in many gods | polytheistic |
| a skilled craftsperson | artisan |
| a simple drawing that looks like the object it represents | pictograph |
| in ancient civilization, a person specially trained to read, write,and keep records | scribe |
| the spread of ideas, customs, technologies from one people to another | cultural diffusion |
| a political unit that includes a city and its surrounding lands and villages | city-state |
| a group of states or territories controlled by one ruler | empire |
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