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HIST1010
Test 1
11
History
Undergraduate 1
05/28/2013

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Term
Agricultural Revolution Started When?
Definition
8,000 BC
Term
When Did Martin Luther Taped 95 Feces On A Door Inviting Roman Catholic To Debate (Birth Of Protestantism)?
Definition
1517
Term
When Did The American Civil War Begin and End?
Definition
1861-1865
Term
When Did WW1 Start and End ?
Definition
1914-1918
Term
When Did WW2 Start and End ?
Definition
1939-1945
Term
What 5 things do you need to MANAGE A GROUP OF STRANGERS?
Definition
1) Legal System
2) Religion/Church
3) Dictatorship/Monarchy
4) Military
5)Economics
Term
What are the 2 themes of history?
Definition
1) Managing a group of strangers
2)Stopping problems/solutions
Term
Describe HOMO AUSTRALOPITHECUS
Definition
- Circa 3 million BCE
- Smaller brain
- Gracile (lighter bone structure)
- Lucy
Term
Describe HOMO ERECTUS
Definition
-Larger brain
- Larynx moving up and down(Easier to choke but also easier to speak)
- 1st use of fire for hunting, warmth and cooking threw meat on the fire
Term
Describe HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS
Definition
- Emerged in Europe
- Circa 150,000 BCE
- Used clothing and better weapons to kill animals
- Used animal skins to wrap around themselves
- Used heavy spears to hunt
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Describe HOMO SAPIENS SAPIENS
Definition
- "Wise man"
- Circa 250,000 BCE
- Light and fast
- Full of conceptual speech
- They had art ( evidence of conceptual thinking)
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