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| a man-made object taken as a whole |
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| The family of primates to which humans belong. |
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| another name for the “old stone age” when homo sapien sapiens first emerged |
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| The New Stone Age, agriculture occurred; domestication of plants and animals |
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| the term for a city and it’s surrounding lands |
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| name of the first civilization in Mesopotamia |
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| the only surviving hominid; species of modern man; primate w/ language + can make/use complex tools |
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| Society w/ direct procurement of edible plants and animals from the wild |
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| the term for the taming of animals for human use |
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| group of people related by blood or marriage |
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| the term for a system of ranking |
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| technique used to determine how old artifacts are |
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| Before the invention of writing |
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| the shift from food gathering to food production |
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| religious and administrative centers of the Mesopotamians |
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| Sumerian pictographic language, one of the first written languages |
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