Foundational Era Vocab

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Old Stone Age (2.6M - 12,000 BCE), marked by stone tools & fire.

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Paleolithic

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Term for equal power/possessions among people/genders.

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Egalitarian

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Connection by blood or close relations.

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Kinship

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Meaning 'new stone age,' marked by the end of nomadic life and the rise of permanent settlements or animal domestication.

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Neolithic

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Cattle, horses, sheep, pigs, etc. are examples of...

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Domesticated animals

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Society run predominantly by men

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Patriarchal

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People who move with livestock to grasslands, living off animals and trading with settlements.

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Pastoralists

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Term for uneven distribution of society's goods or power.

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Social disparity