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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Citrus fruits and bananas originated in |
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