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Key Terms
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Prehistory is before history
What is prehistory?
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They learned how to make fire
What did early hominids learn in between 1,400,000and 500,000 years?
100
Bronze was more useful than copper because it was harder and more durable, and thus could be used to make longer-lasting items.
Why was bronze more useful than copper?
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The study of Earth´s surface and the process that shape it.
Geography
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Archaeologists are scientist who examine objects to learn about the past peoples and cultures.
Who are Archaeologists, and what do they do?
200
In the new stone age
When did farming start?
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The wheel was important because it helped to improve trade and transportation. Today it is used in all kinds of transportation, such as bicycles, cars, trucks, trains, and even airplanes.
Why do some people think that the wheel was one of the most important inventions in history?
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a society with cities, a central government,job specialization, and social classes
Civilization
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They were two hiders, and discovered in 1991.
Who were the people that found iceman and what year?
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Pastoral nomads are people that raise their own livestock and traveled place to place to find grazing areas for their animals.
What are pastoral nomads?
300
A.D. 2000
By what date had the population reached more than 6 billion?
300
a modern human or a member of an earlier group that may have included ancestors or relatives of modern humans.
Hominid
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They developed system of writing.
What did the South west Asia and in Africa developed about 5,000 years ago?
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Some places were better because the soil is better and also the temperature.
Why were some places better for planting than others?
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Some of the earliest cities were began along: • the Nile River in Egypt • the Tigris and Euphrates in Iraq • the Huang River in China • the Indus in Pakistan
Along which rivers, and in what countries did some of earliest cities grow?
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a period of time during which hominids made lasting tools and weapons mainly from stone, the earliest known period ‘of prehistoric culture.
Stone Age
500
It was the first metal that was called copper. What is history? History is the events that happened in the past but written.
What happened in 4000 B.C?
500
They discovered that if you planted seeds of wild grasses , new crops of grasses would come up.
What discovery did South west Asia people discovered 11,000 years ago?
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• Kings o Priests o Nobles (government officials and military officers) o Artisans, small traders, and merchants • Common workers and farmers o Slaves
Describe the social structure of early large cities.
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supplying land with water through a network of canals
Irrigation
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