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WHAP Midterms-1
vocab that i need to know for this exam /:
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History
10th Grade
01/14/2009

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hunter-gatherer
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a person who eats by hunting game and gathering wild plants and berries.
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pastoralism
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where one herds livestock
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civilization
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an advanced human society with government, advances in math, science, and culture.
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Neolithic
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the new stone age where agriculture and domestic animals developed.
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Paleolithic
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the old stone age where tools were basic and people relied on hunting and gathering for survival.
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nomads
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people who move from place to place to hunt and find food to eat to live.
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Homo Sapiens
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the most successful human group.. thing.. :P our ancestors.
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culture
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the behavior, beliefs, and custom of a group of people that leads their life.
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matrilineal
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tracing ancestorship through maternal lines.
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Neolithic Revolution
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the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture, from herding to civilization.
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Catal Huyuk
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an early urbanized culture based on agriculture, stone tools.
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Bronze Age
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from 3000-1500 B.C.E. people used bronze tools.
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agriculture
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growing and domesticating plants and animals.
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domestication
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when the breeding of plants and animals is controlled by humans.
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social differentiation
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a process to separate people into different groups.
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Egyptians
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northeast africans
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Jews
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a group of peopole whose religion and culture are based on Judaism.
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Sumerians
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people who moved into Mesopotamia around 4000 B.C.E. that organized city states.
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Phoenicians
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people of the Mediterranean that created a simple alphabet and improved the Egyptian numbering system.
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Lydians
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people who lived in present day turkey; invented coin money.
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Mesopotamia
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first civilization located between tigris & euphrates rivers.
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Hammurabi
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a Babylonian king- invented early code of laws.
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monotheism
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practice of worshipping 1 god.
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polytheism
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practice of worshipping multiple gods.
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patriarchal society
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society where men are in control of government, family, and other aspects of society.
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Shang Dynasty
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first chinese dynasty.
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