Unit 1 Test Flashcards
Five Themes of Social Studies
History, Geography, Economics, Civics/Government, and Culture/Society
History
Study of past events
Historian
Someone who tries to reconstruct past event and why it happened
Ancient History
60,000 BCE - 650 CE
Post-Classical History
500 - 1500
Modern History
1500 - Present
2 Types of Historical Sources
Primary source(original document from that time) and secondary source(document made by primary sources)
History allows us to understand…
How and why people are in a particular play, societies changed over time, and tech impacted life; Aspects of culture held by group
Chronology
Studying the order in which events happened
BCE
Before Common Era (Goes from highest Yeager to lowest year)
BC
Before Christ
History relies on 2 subjects
Anthropology & Archaeology
Anthropology
Study of humans, human behavior, and societies in the past and present
Archaeology
Study of past cultures by analyzing the artifacts, architecture, and other items leftt behind from past civilizations
Humans originated from…
Central Eastern Africa and gradually migrated to the rest of the world
When was the earliest hominid?
5 million years ago, walked upright, could make tools
2 early hominids
Homo Erectus & Neanderthals (could control fire & elaborate burials
Stone Age lasted…
2.489 million years ago
Paleolithic Age
Lasted 2.5 million years (First Sub-Period)
Last Ice Age impacted human history
Sea levels dropped, connecting continents
After Ice age…
Humans in the Americas were isolated from other continents (isolated until Columbus arrived)
Mesolithic Age
10,000 - 6,000 years ago (Second Sub-Period)
Paleolithic Characteristics
Hunter-gatherers, nomadic, lived in small groups, kinship, varied diet, few belongings, no wealth/social class/knowledge of farming/domestication/writing, egalitarian society, rely on oral traditions, elaborate burials, complex religious beliefs, made tools of stone, wood, and bone, and created art
Neolithic Age
Started around 7,000 BCE (Third Sub-Period)
