Vocabulary One
A powerful bond between people who share the same origins.
What is Common Ancestry?
One common origin
What is Monogenesis?
Small human-like creatures.
What is a Hominid?
a common occurrence in all living things that sometimes first adapt, first genetically and then physically, to survive in a changing environment.
What is Genetic Adaptation?
Annual flooding of the Nile River.
What is Inundation?
places where stones jut out of the water, creating rapids and small waterfalls.
What are Cataracts?
A population within a specific culture that shares common social institutions—particularly language and customs.
What is an Ethnic Group?
Our system of social development.
What is a Civilization?
People who came centuries before.
Who are Ancestors?
Later called "Egypt"
What is Kemet?
Scientists who study bone fragments and other human remains from past cultures.
Who are Archaeologists?
Genetic and physical change.
What is Differentiation?
a form of government headed by a supreme ruler such as a king or queen.
What is a Monarchy?
Time before recorded history.
What is Prehistory?
People who teach about Africa.
Who are Africologist?
The period of the production of stone tools.
What is the Stone Age?
The genetic code that carries information about cells and controls heredity.
What is DNA?
Special markings on the cheek.
What is Scarification?
Clues to past things that existed.
What are Artifacts?
When glaciers, or thick sheets of ice, developed across much of Europe and Asia.
What was the Ice Age?