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Prehistory
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- 1PREHISTORYPERIOD OF TIME SINCE THE FIRST HOMINIDS APPEARED UNTIL WRITTING WAS INVENTED (APROX 6 MILLON YEARS AGO TO 3000 BC)
- 2PALEOLITHICMEANING "OLD STONE", MADE TOOLS BY HITTING ONE STONE AGAINST ANOTHER. THIS PERIOD BEGAN 2,5 MILLION YEARS AGO, ITS DIVIDED INTO THREE PERIODS LOWER, MIDDLE AND UPPER PALEOLITHIC. THEY WERE HUNTER-GATHERER AND SEMI-NOMADS
- 3NEOLITHICMEANING "NEW STONE". HUMANS MADE TOOLS BY RUBBING KNAPPED STONE WITH A HARDER STONE TO SMOOTH THE SURFACE (POLISHED STONE). THEY DEVELOPED AGRICULTURE AND DOMESTICATED ANIMALS, (AROUND 10.000 BC) THEY STABLISH PERMANENT SETTLEMENTS.
- 4METAL AGESPERIOD OF TIME WHEN HUMANS IN THE NEAR EAST DISCOVERED METALLURGY (consisting of heating metal to high temperatures to shape it into objects). AROUND THE 3.500 BC THIS MARKED THE BEGINNING OF THE COPPER, BRONZE AND IRON AGES.
- 5HOMINIDARE THE FIRST SPECIES THAT EVOLVED FROM A COMMON PRIMATE ANCESTOR AND DEVELOPED (HOMINISATION) TO MODERN HUMANS.
- 6HOMINISATIONIS THE PROCESS THAT REFERS TO THE CHANGES THAT OCCURRED IN HOMINIDS OVER MILLLIONS OF YEARS (BIPEDALISM, OPPOSONABLE THUMBS, INCREASE IN THE SIZE OF THE SKULL, LANGUAGE). IT STARTED IN AFRICA AROUND 5 MILLION YEARS AGO.
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- Historia Ciencias Sociales FlashCards sobre Prehistory, criado por Laura Garzón del Río em 05-05-2021.
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