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Pile Management Card
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early family
large
religion was polytheistic
woman and men shared power, but woman did not get involved with politics or religion.
skilled workers and technological advances for neolithic age
-using metals!
figured copper was ineffective
BRONZE was good!
-irrigation farmers
ditches and canals
flood control made people work together; GOVERNMENTS BEGAN!
vilages turned into cities
CIVILIZATION
when culture becomes highly developed
1. sspecialized workers
2. advanced technological skills
3. complex institutions... govn't or religion
4. division of labor
5. calender
new moon (1 month) tides floods---need to know for agriculture

6. writing
pictures represent objects
7. social classes
One example of a river valley...
nile river- africa
Neolithic age:
softmores

they FINALLY -___________
they _______ animals
and they developed _______________.
settled in permanent villages

they domesticated animals
and developed agriculture!
they made clothes
they used fertilizer
they invented the plow
and they made tools like axes.
the cro-magnon people made over ____ different tools. they made these with ___ ___ ___. some of these tools included....
they also had ........
100 tools made of
stones, bones and wood.
SBW!
Stones bones and wood.
(one of those tools may have been colone!!...Cro Magnon.)
some of these tools may have been fishhooks, razorsharp blades, sewing needles.
Who were the neanderthal people named after?
How ever...they did not live here all the time because they were ________.
Neander Valley in german where remains were found in 1856.
they were migrant.
how long did the Neanderthal people survive? They died _____,000 years ago.
10,000 year survival
they died 30,000 years ago
Neanderthal People had _______ bones. Another unique characteristic was ____.
thicker
their foreheads were sloped
The ice age covered ---- of the earth.
Most of this was in the _______. The _____ had heavy ___ ____.
1/3
Most of this was in the north (covered in ice) The south had heavy rain fall.
How did the Ice age happen?
2 theories
1. huge volcano erupted and covered sun in ash
2. huge meteor blackened the sun
what did they find in 1978
a 3.7 million year old skelton
in Tanzania
found by Mary Leaky
hominid
stands on 2 legs, bipedal
Who found Lucy
How old was she?
Where?
When?
1974 Ethiopia
Donald C. Johnson
3 million years old
she was a hominid
Paleolithic
Old stone age-- almost all stone artifacts
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