AGS World History Chapter 1

the values, attitudes, and customs of a group

a daily record of what happens to a person

one who is an expert of history

the record of past events and the story of what happened to people in the past

the human race

a first-hand account of a historical event

a second-hand account of a historical event; an account written by a person who was not there

to explain something

an explanation of something

having to do with the whole world

a person who studies the beginnings and the behavior of people

a person who finds and studies the things humans left behind in the past

an object made by a person

to figure something out

a way of measuring the radioacitivity of historic artifacts to determine how old they are

two British scientists who discovered stone tools, pieces of bone, skulls, and teeth in East Africa dating back up to 1.75 million years ago and footrpints of a hominid dating back 3 million years ago

Before the Birth of Christ (now often substitued with B.C.E. [Before the Common Era] )

Anno Domini, Latin for "Year of Our Lord" (now often substituted with C.E. [Common Era])

to rot away or spoil

the glowing remains of a fire

a erson who moves from place to place

the time before humans left written records

the more scientific name for the "buffalo" of North America

a wild pig-like animal

an object or building that stands in place and is usually made of some kind of stone

a well-educated perosn who has a great deal of knowledge about something

a hard metal made of a blend of copper and tin

the hiding of the sun by the moon

animals domesticated from wolves that have been the companion of humans for the last 9,000 years

a people who have cities and government; a large group of people with a high level of development as a group

time from 3,500 B.C. to 1,500 B.C. when prehistoric people made tools from bronze

famous prehistoric monument of over 30 stones each weighing over 35 tons near the city of Salisbury, England

holy book of both Jews and Christians, made up of an Old and New Testament

Greek for truth that can be ound through argument and demonstration

stories explaining basic questions about humans and their world that the ancient Greeks accepted as true