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| What invention marked the beginning of recorded history? | Invention of writing |
| What is the long period before the use of writing called? | prehistory |
| Who studies and writes about the past? How do they understand details from the past? | historians. Examining artifacts |
| What field focuses on the development of people and their societies? | Anthropology |
| What is culture? | a societies unique way of life |
| What are some materials studied by Archaeologists? | Artifacts such as remains, tools, jewelry |
| What term refers to people using skills and tools to meet their basic needs? | Technology |
| What does homo erectus mean? When do scientist believe they appeared? | Walk upright, 2 million years ago |
| What evidence makes scholars believe that homo erectus migrated? | Remains were found in places other than Africa |
| Where did Neanderthals mostly live? | Europe and western Asia |
| What is the time period of the of the Old Stone Age? What is the time period of the New Stone Age? | 2 million B.C to 10,000 B.C, 10,000 B.C. until the end of prehistory |
| What significant developments took place in the New Stone Age? | Farming and domestication of animals |
| What are some of the characteristics of Early modern people? | Nomadic, made tools and weapons out of stone and bones |
| What skill did people develop that made a dramatic impact on Early humans lives during the New Stone Age? | Farming |
| Why is the Neolithic Revolution important? | Led to the development of villages and civilization |
| What are the earliest known villages? | Catalhuyuk and Jerico |
| what important landforms did most of the earliest civilizations develop close to? | Bodies of water, rivers |
| What were the world's first civilizations? on what rivers were they situated near? | Sumer, Egypt, Indus, Shang. Tigress and Euphrates, Nile, Indus, Yellow River |
| What were the characteristics of the earliest civilizations? | complex organized social order |
| What type of political units developed as the earliest civilizations grew? | City-states, empires |
