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| the behaviors, beliefs, customs, and attitudes of a group of people |
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| a complex society with a stable food supply, specialization of labor, a government, social levels, and a highly developed culture that includes art, architecture, religion, music, and laws |
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| our current calender was designed in 500 A.D. to highlight the birth of Christ |
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| early civilizations developed near river systems which provided food, water, transportation, trade, and irrigation |
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| the world is divided into northern, southern, eastern, and western hemispheres |
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| human-made objects(tools, jewelry, toys, coins)that teach about the customs and beliefs of people of the past |
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| history that took place before the development of writing |
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| stories, myths, and legends that are passed on by word of mouth from generation to generation |
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| recovery and study of artifacts, ruins, bones, and fossils remaining from the past |
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| the process of digging up remains of the past |
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| the earliest humans were called hunter-gatherers because they hunted for wild animals and gathered wild plants for food |
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| development of tools and uses of fire |
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| the development of tools and uses of fire were key factors in the survival of early humans |
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| as early humans settled, they began to control both the growth and behavior of plants and animals; this process is called domestication |
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