Historical Thinking and Geography Worksheet

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What is prehistory?

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Time period before the invention of writing

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Define cultural diffusion.

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Blending or mixing of cultures

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What continent did the first people live?

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Africa

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What is a nomad?

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A person who wonders from place to place looking for food

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The Neolithic Revolution was a change from what to what?

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Hunting and gathering to farming

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A traditional society or economy is based on what? Options: farming, technology, banking, manufacturing

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farming

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What is the role of government in a civilization? Options: Make laws, maintain peace, offer protection; Grow crops and harvest food; Invent new languages for citizens; Build only religious monuments

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Make laws, maintain peace, offer protection

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Why did Neolithic peoples bury the dead with tools and weapons?

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Believed in an afterlife

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What does polytheism mean?

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Belief in more than one god

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Technology is?

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Advancement that makes the lives of humans better