Prehistory

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Great Rift Valley

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A giant canyon-like area near the Horn of Africa

•contains Mt. Kilimanjaro and the Ethiopian highlands

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Cataracts

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Descent of water over a steep edge

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Tropical wet climate

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Hot and rainy

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Tropical wet and dry climate

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By year round with a distinct rainy and dry season

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Savanna

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Tropical wet and dry climate; Tall, thick grasslands with scattered trees

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Semiarid climate

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Transitional zone from desert to wetter parts; rainfall is very limited and unpredictable

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Steppe

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Semiarid climate; short grasses interspersed with shrubs/bushes but trees are basically nonexistent

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Sahel

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Southern border of Sahara; African steppe

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Arid climate

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Desert

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Desertification

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When people use up all the nutrients in the soil of a piece of land (turns into a desert)

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Periodization

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Breaks in time based on significant changes

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Prehistory

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The time before people had a written language

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Archeology/archeologists

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The study of human activity in the past/ people who study archeology

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Artifact

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An object made by humans

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Site

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A place that archeologists search for artifacts/things that that prove what was in that area at one time

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Inference

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Educated guess based on what you know

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Evidence

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An indication of sign

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Shard/sherd

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A piece of something that has been broken

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Stratigraphic dating/ stratigraphy

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Dating something based on how far down it was in the Earth/layers of sedimentary rock is about it

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Radiocarbon (carbon-14) dating

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When you carbon date something; the object had to have been living at one point

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Ice Age

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A long period of time when the world was mostly frozen

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“Out of Africa” theory

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The thought of Homo sapiens originating in Africa and migrating out to other places

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Animism

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The belief that all things have souls

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Shamanism

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A religion that had a practitioner go into a different state of consciousness to talk to the spirits

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DreamTime

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An elaborate and complex outlook on the world; everything in the natural order was a sign/echo of ancient happenings - reason as to why inhabitants were so tied to the land

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Technology

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What type of tools and knowledge they were using at the time

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Paleolithic Age

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First of the stone ages - | Stone tools, nomadic way of life, 2.5 million - 8,000 BCE

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Lascaux

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Set of caves in southwestern France famous for its cave paintings

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Nomadic (nomads)

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The way of how people lived in the Paleolithic Age; traveled constantly and only in groups of 15-30

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Escarpments

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Where the land drops off sharply

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Foraging societies (foragers)

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Paleolithic & part of Mesolithic age; nomadic way of life, when you search for food, with hunting as a marginal part of their diet

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Equalitarian/egalitarian

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The belief that everyone is equal

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Mesolithic Age

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The transition time between the Paleolithic and Neolithic Age; 10,000 - 7,000 BCE

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Neolithic Age

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Agricultural society - caused gender roles, social classes, permanent settlements; 8,000 - 3,000 BCE

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BCE = BC

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Before common era = before Christ

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CE = AD

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Common Era = (Latin translation) "the Year of our Lord

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Neolithic Revolution

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Major changes: | •taming animals •settled communities •gender roles •agriculture •social stratification

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Agricultural society

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When people farm

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Jericho

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The longest lasting Neolithic village (still exists today)

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Catal Huyuk/Bam Po

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Neolithic villages | Bam Po - early Chinese village

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Obsidian

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Volcanic glass; igneous rock

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Domestication

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When humans tame animals/plants

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Environmental degradation

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When the environment deteriorates cause of resources depleting

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Sedentary

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When a community/someone isn't that physically active and does a lot of sitting

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Pastoral society/pastoralism

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When a society relies on the domestication of animals

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Bantu migrations

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The movement of the Bantu people across Africa