Lexi Martin Unit 1 Study Guide – Chapters 1-6 Vocabulary- Australopithecus- an extinct genus of small-brained‚ large-toothed bipedal hominids that live in Africa between one and four million years ago. Paleolithic Age- At sites dating from the Lower Paleolithic Period (about 2‚500‚000 to 200‚000 years ago)‚ simple pebble tools have been found in association with the remains of what may have been the earliest human ancestors. Neanderthal- an unenlightened or ignorant person; barbarian. Neolithic
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Unit One Exam Make-up We spend our daily lives living in a civilization‚ an advanced state of society with a high level of culture‚ science‚ industry and government. Living in today’s society has set our way of life apart from the way of life from the early and advancing civilizations. Today it’s effortless to get wrapped up in our society and take for granted who and what got us to this point in time. The Early civilizations and the advancements they made built a foundation to start living
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mountainous and semi-arid desert conditions to tropical rain forests. Mesoamerica was known to built magnificent stop structures and pyramids by hand. Urban and Ceremonial centers were being built in the Gulf Coast lowlands of Mexico by people known as the Olmec. Often referred to as the "mother culture" of Mesoamerica. Chinampas‚ or raised terraced farmland surrounded by water we utilized by the Aztecs. They had foods such as beans‚ squash‚ corn‚ sweet potatoes‚ peppers and tomatoes. Mesoamericans believed
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Chapter 7 Define: * Plateau: a relatively high‚ flat land areas * Desert * Savanna: broad grassland dotted with small trees and shrubs Define: * Animism: * Griot: a special class of African storytellers who help keep alive a people’s history * Subsistence Farming: the practice of growing just enough crops for personal use‚ not for sale * Matrilineal: tracing lineage through the mother rather than the father * Patrilineal: tracing lineage through the father Know
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between humans and the environment) Chocolate orginated in central and South America from the cacao tree (pronounced "ka-kow"). The earliest use and cultivation of the cacao tree has been dated as far back as 1400 B.C. in Honduras‚ by the Olmecs. Chocolate was initially made into a type of beverage called xocolatl by the mesoamerican people‚ a nahuatl word meaning "bitter water" due to the cacao tree’s bitter taste when unfermented. Chocolate first spread beyond mesoamerica when Montezuma
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Norte Chico (central coastal Peru)‚ emerged between 3000 and 1800 b.c.e. 3. Indus Valley civilization arose between 3000 and 2000 b.c.e. along with Nile Valley civilization 4. Around 2200 b.c.e.‚ a First Civilization took shape in China 5. The Olmec produced a First Civilization much later (around 1200 b.c.e.) on coast of Gulf of Mexico II. Describe how inequality took place in civilizations. A. As the first civilizations took shape‚ inequality and hierarchy soon came to be regarded as normal
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Groups trying to move to new areas where they were not looked at in a good like caused conflict between the groups. 6. The Native Americans created many inventions that helped them such as the calendar and corn that was bigger than a strawberry. The Olmecs started off pretty low but as time passed they advanced to be equal to some of the other empires around the world. 7. African civilizations rose greatly with the find of gold and other resources. People moved new the deposits of gold to try and get
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The word zero came via French zéro from Venetian zero‚ which (together with cypher) came via Italian zefiro from Arabic صفر‚ ṣafira = "it was empty"‚ ṣifr = "zero"‚ "nothing". This was a translation of the Sanskrit word shoonya (śūnya)‚ meaning "empty". The first known English use was in 1598.[4][5][6][7] ------------------------------------------------- History Mesopotamia By the middle of the 2nd millennium BC‚ the Babylonian mathematics had a sophisticated sexagesimal positional numeral system
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In pre- Columbian America there is evidence to show that there were both Norse and African presence present before the arrival of Christopher Columbus’ maiden voyage in 1492. The presence of the Africans was first stated by Christopher Columbus himself in his voyage diaries‚ which he claimed was told to him by an Indian on his second voyage. This was later solidified by Portuguese seamen who also told of African navigation to Columbus. On the other hand the Nordic Movement into pre- Columbian America
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that laid the economic foundation for populous and wealthy societies in Mexico‚ Peru‚ and the Mississippi River Valley. Between 700 B.C. and A.D. 1500‚ several sophisticated native civilizations developed across Mesoamerica‚ beginning with the Olmecs‚
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