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Chapter 1
World History
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History
10th Grade
12/07/2014

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Historical Perspective
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a specific point of view in understanding past events
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primary source
Definition
come from that time period
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secondary source
Definition
written about an event later.
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History
Definition
Study of Past Events
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Historian
Definition
person who rely's on written records to create pictures of human past.
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Pre-History
Definition
before there was writing
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archeologist's
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Analyze artifacts people left behind to study past societies
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artifacts
Definition
tools pottery paintings weapons, buildings, and household items of early people.
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anthropologists
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study human everyday life and culture by studying fossils.
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fossils
Definition
remains of humans
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radio carbon dating
Definition
measure amount of radioactive carbon remaining in an artifact
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thermo luminescence
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measures light given by electrons trapped in soils surrounding artifacts
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DNA
Definition
blood molecules may survive millions of years
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Hominids
Definition
First Human like creature to walk up-right
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Louis & Mary Leakey
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Discovered oldest hominid in East Africa
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Australopithecines
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The Southern Ape. Discovered by Donald Johnson
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Homo Habilis
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Handy Man. First to use stone tools
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Homo Erectus
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First To Leave Africa. Upright Man
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Homo Sapiens
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Neanderthals. Master FIre. First To bury dead
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Homo Sapiens Sapiens
Definition
Today Human's
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Paleolithic Age
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Old Stone Age
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Systematic Agriculture
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people shifted from hunting to farming regularly
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Domestication of Animals
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Steady food supply & labor
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Jericho
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Oldest Known Village
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End OF Neolithic Age
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Copper to Bronze to Iron
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Basic Characteristics of Civilizations
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Cities Government Religion Social Structure Writing Art
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