Prehistory
The scientific study of humankind. People who study this learn about the origins and development of human beings.
What is Antropology?
Why were ancient civilizations important?
Because they led to our current practices.
Which were the main economic activities in the Middle Ages?
Agriculture and artisanal production.
When did the Renaissance took place?
In the 16th Century
The different techniques used by cartographers for representing a globe.
What are cartographic projections?
The study of past human life through objects such as pottery, tools and buildings.
What is Archeology?
Characteristic shared by all the ancient civilizatoons.
They all had their own writing system, religious believes and political leaders.
Religious system in which people believed in only one god.
Monotheistic
Renaissance
Movement of Earth in which it rotates on its own axis.
Rotation
Why was agriculture important?
Because people colud stop moving from one place to other.
Ancient Civilization with 3 forms of governments which the last one was leaded by only one governor.
Rome
System in which kings and nobels owned lands that servants worked.
Feudalism
A philosophical stance that emphasizes the individual and social potential, and agency of human beings.
Humanism
Order in which the continents were popullated.
Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania and America
An area of land that is defined by physical features (such as a surrounding mountain range) and contains similar plant and animal species.
What is a natural region?
Form of religion where people beleived in many gods.
Politeism
Main religion during the Middle Ages
Christianism
Name of the sea located among three continents. It favored cultural and commercial exchanges.
Mediterranean Sea
What are the 3 movements of tectonic plates? Explain them.
CONVERGENT, where plates move into one another; DIVERGENT, where plates move apart; and TRANSFORMATION, where plates move sideways in relation to each other.
What marked the end of prehistory?
Invention of writing
Civilization from which we inherited the alphabet and numerical system, which we use nowadays.
Indian Civilization.
After the fall of the Roman Empire, there were some organized groups with their own languuages, beliefs and traditions, callled:
Barbarians
What kicked off the Renaiisance?
The devastation in Florence caused by the Black Death, which hit Europe between 1348 and 1350.
What is a consequence of overpopullation?
Increased demand for food, water, housing, energy, healthcare, transportation, and more.