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Chapter 1
Paleolithic and Neolithic Eras and the Societies
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History
9th Grade
09/15/2008

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List some characteristics of a comples society
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Advanced housing and language, hierarchy, control environment- agriculture/not hunting, improved technology, specialization,sedentation, trade, education, intelligence in aquiring food
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Basic Development of Complex Society
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hunting and foraging -> private property and agriculture -> surplus of food -> cpmplex society
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competition develops with ________and leads to _________ due to_________
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posession of territory, warfare due to selfishness and greedyness
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Describe one way specialization initiated
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When food became excessive, pottery emerged as pots were used for the storation of extra food
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How did specialized workers obtain food
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They traded with farmers with the items they crafted or service they provided
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1st complex societies appear
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4th millenium BCE-1st millenium BCE
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Describe a difference between a millenium and a century
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millenium=1000 yrs, century=100yrs
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What's the main aspect of history, without which it can't exist
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humanity
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When did the human population spread through all of the inhabitable parts of the earth, except _______, which was only inhabited_____
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13,000 BCE, Hawaii, 1000's of yrs ago
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What are some of the archaelogical finds of Paleolithic Age?
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sophisticated tools: choppers, scrapers, knives, bows, arrows, vace, hut-like shelters, fire usage, animal skins
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How did the paleolithics affect animals
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Hunted several animals to extinction,such as mammoths, giant sloths, but climatic change may have sped up the process
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How was the information about Paleolithic period obtained?
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Through archaeological finds and inferences from modern hunter-gatherer societies
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Paleolithic people hunted and gathered in groups of ____
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30-50
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Did hierarchy among individuals exist between he Paleolithic people?
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No, there was relative social equality, only division of labor among gender lines existed(women gathered plants while men hunted for meat and went on hunting expeditions)
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What are the three exceptions to Pleolithic societies and why
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Natufan, Jomon, and Chinook societieshad groups of 1000 or more
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Jomon societu characteristics
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World's first potters, resided in Japan, collected buckweed/fished
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Chinook society characteristics
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lived in the Pacific Northwest of USA, gathered berries, acorn, and nuts, fished salmon
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Natufian Society characteristics
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Lived in modern Israel and Jordan, gathered wild wheat, herding
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Neandertal People
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Homonids inhabiting the Neandern Valley, Germany, also Africa and East Asia; practiced ritual burials, had language although not as advanced(smaller brain than ours), meat was main diet
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Cro-Magnons
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Homo Sapiens Sapiens(1st modern people); physically similar to modern humans; greater speech capacity than the Neandertals, but less advanced than todays; artsistic skill-cave paintings(Altamira, Lascaux), "Venus" figurines, adornments, decorative furnitre; variety of hair and eyecolor started here; increased variety in foods-meat, vegetables, grains...
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How did the tools change into Neolithic Era
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became more safisticated(chipped, polished)
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What was the main aspect of the Neolithic Era
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Sedentary Agriculture:men herded animals rather than hunting and women nurtured vegetation
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define agriculture
Definition
control over the reproduction of animals and plants
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What is the name of agricultural technique that became widely spread? Explain
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Slash-n-Burn, plants were cut to dry and then burned (the patch of land was fertilized with ashes)
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Using up the soil for agricultural purposes promoted_______
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migration
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How did humans' movement from place to place contribue to the spread of agriculture
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crops were transported from one region to the next
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Grains are
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modified grasses that grow at certain latitudes and altitudes(temperatures)
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What's the difference between domseticated animals of the Americas and the rest of the world during early Neolithic Era?
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Americas had small animals(dogs, guinea pigs, alpacas, turkey,) while the rest of the world had generally larger domesticated animals(buffalos)that could do more work
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Hot peppers, tomatoes, and squashes originated in
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Mesoamerica
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Citrus fruits and bananas originated in
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Southeast Asia
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Potatoes came from
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Andean South America
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