Vocab
Early Humans
Neolithic Era
Mesopotamia
Think like a Historian
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The study of the past through artifacts 

Archaeology

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What is the "out-of-Africa" theory?

The theory that humans started in Africa and spread to Europe and Asia 

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What revolutionary development marked the Neolithic Age?

Systematic Agriculture

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What rivers are Mesopotamia located between?

Tigris and Euphrate

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What is a primary source?

Writing from the authors perspective and experience. 

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The study of culture

Anthropology

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How did the Paleolithic people survive?

They were Hunters and gathers, and moved from place to place (nomads)

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What does Neolithic mean?

New Stone Age

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What kind of religion did the Sumerians believe in?

Polytheistic

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What is a secondary source?

writing that is written by someone who did not experience first-hand or participate in the events or conditions of the writing. 
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Location, Place, Region, Human-Environmental Innovations, Migration

Location, Place, Region, Human-Environmental Inevtions, Migration.

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How did fire improve the lives of Paleolithic people?

They were able to stay warm during the winter and use it for cooking. 

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What were the first crops and domesticated animals?

Wheat & Barley

Cows, pigs, sheep, and goats

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Name two of the inventions that Sumerians invented. 

Wagon Wheel, Mathematics, Astronomy, Writing, irrigation system, drainage system. 

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Pictures or symbols that represent an object or an idea is called...

Pictograms

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What tools do scientist use to date artifacts and fossils?

Radio-Carbon Dating
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Why are the caves in the France important to prehistory?

They found cave drawing there

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A complex high organized social order is...

A civilization

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The City-States of Eridu, Ur, and Uruk expanded to for the walled ______ of Sumerian civilization. 

City-State

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The study of past events

History

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People who move from place to place are known as?

Nomads

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Paleolithic Age means

Old Stone Age

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Why were writing and art important in Neolithic society?

Keeping accurate records of the cities and culture 

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What new architecture did the Sumerians introduce?

Arches and domes 

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What does BC stand for?

Before Christ 


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