Vocab 1 WHI Flashcards

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Hunter-Gatherer

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Nomadic groups whose food supply depends on hunting animals and collecting plant foods

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Aleppo and Jericho

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Ancient cities that started as a defensive position in the Fertile Crescent, known for high walls

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Stonehenge

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Neolithic monument in Wiltshire, England. It is often considered mysterious and its origins are often disputed.

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Catalhuyuk

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Ancient city in modern day Turkey, one of the earliest known and accepted cities

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Catalhuyuk

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Ancient city known for its obsidian products

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Neolithic

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Period beginning around 10,000 BC, period between the Paleolithic and Bronze Age, tools become more advanced and agriculture begins

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Paleolithic

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Often called the Old Stone Age

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Neanderthals

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European variant of Homo sapiens that died out about 25,000 years ago.

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Paleolithic

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Period that used less sophisticated stone tools, had cave drawings, and implemented fire

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Franz Boas

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This anthropologist studied the Kwakiutl tribe and their gift-giving feast known as potlatch.