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Question 1

Is defined as “that complex whole which encompasses beliefs, practices, values, attitudes, laws, norms, artifacts, symbols, knowledge, and everything that a person learns and shares as a member of a society”

Answer 1

Culture

Question 2

Is a natural process of biological changes occurring in a population across successive generations; It helps us identify and analyze man’s physiological development and eventually the emergence of different society.

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Evolution

Question 3

The development of the different species of primates which were able to evolve in 40 million years ago. (“Manlike Primates”)

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Hominids

Question 4

The apelike men who first used stone tools as weapons and protection of their enemies.
(“Handy Man”)

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Homo Habilis

Question 5

It was believed to be the first man like creature that lived about 500,000 years ago in Asia, Africa and Europe. This manlike species could walk straight with with almost the same brain as the modern man.
(“The Upright Man”)

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Homo Erectus

Question 6

It was believed that this was the direct descendant of modern man who lived 250,000 years ago. They had similar physical description with modern man.
(“The Thinking Man”)

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Homo Sapiens

Question 7

Homo Sapiens Subspecies

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Neanderthal Man - Discovered in Neanderthal Valley.

Cro-magnon Man - Discovered by a French archaeologist, Louis Lartet in the Cro-magnon cave.

Question 8

Four Biological Capacities of Human to Develop Culture

Answer 8

1. Our thinking capacity
2. Our gripping capacity
3. Our speaking capacity
4. Our walking/standing capacity

Question 9

Enabled humans to wrap the thumb and fingers on an object; It became the cornerstone of our capacity to hold tool firmly for hunting and other activities.

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Power grip

Question 10

Enabled humans to hold and pick objects steadily using fingers. This capacity is crucial for tool-making activities.

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Precision grip

Question 11

Is the capacity to walk and stand on two feet.

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Bipedalism

Question 12

Uses all for limbs.

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Quadropedalism

Question 13

• Use of simple pebble tools
• Learned to live in caves
• Discovered the use of fire

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Paleolithic Period (Old Stone Age)

Question 14

• Stone tools were shaped by polishing or grinding
• Settlement in permanent villages
• “Food-producing creatures”

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Neolithic Age (New Stone Age)

Question 15

The civilization which defines to a more developed social, cultural, political and economic system.

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Age of Metals (4,000 B.C. - 1,500 B.C.

Question 16

Types of Society

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1. Hunting and Gathering Society
2. Horticultural and Pastoral Society
3. Agrarian Society
4. Industrial Society

Question 17

Components of Culture

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1. Material Culture - It is the physical objects a society produces, things people create and use.
2. Non-Material Culture - It consists of elements termed norms, values, beliefs and language shared by the members of a society.

Question 18

Under Material Culture

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Technology

Question 19

Non-Material Cultures

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1. Language
2. Beliefs
3. Values
4. Norms
5. Mores
6. Folkways
7. Laws

Question 20

In the form of structures, monuments, historical sites, and other artifacts.

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Tangible

Question 21

In the form of literature, oral, traditions, concepts, and values.

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Intangible

Question 22

Two categories of Tangible Heritage

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1. Movable
2. Immovable

Question 23

Major discovered fossils (under homo erectus)

Answer 23

1. Pithecanthropus Erectus (Java man)
2. Sinanthropus Pekinensis (Peking man)