Developing a Global Perspective | Primary Sources | Causation and Interpretation in History | Early Human Evolution and Migration | People in the Paleolithic Age |
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What is history?
This is more than a series of names and dates.
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What is a primary source?
This is a gateway to the past because it is an object or document that comes directly from the time period to which it refers,
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What is the primary cause?
This is the most immediate.
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Who were the Australopithecus?
These people lived in eastern and southern Africa between 2.5 and 4 million years ago.
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What was the ice age?
A few factors can trigger this.
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What is higher education?
Identify the role history plays in this.
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What is a secondary source?
This is one created or written after the fact.
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What is the great man theory of history?
The first historians largely concerned themselves with the study of wars and rulers, in accordance with this that credits leaders and heroes with triggering history's pivotal events.
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What is a genus?
This is a taxonomic rank that includes several similar and related species within it.
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What were human populations?
Until as recently as twelve thousand years ago, these remained very small and relied on subsistence hunting and gathering for survival.
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What is a global citizen?
This is someone who may reside in only one nation but who self-identifies as part of the larger world community.
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What is historiography?
This is the study of how other historians have already interpreted and written about the past.
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What is progressive history?
This viewed history as a straight line to a specific destination.
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What are the Neanderthals and Homo sapiens?
Over time populations led to a diversity of human species including Homo heidelbergensis; Homo neanderthalensis, or these; Denisovans; and modern humans, or these.
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What are nuts, fruits, berries, wild grains and honey, fish, birds, shellfish, insects, and other animals?
Diets for humans in the ice age consisted of these foods.
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What is chronological approach?
This proceeds from ancient to modern times
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What is rhetoric?
Linguists call the use of language this.
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What is intellectual history?
This looks at the ideas that drive people to make certain choices and focuses philosophical questions and the history of human thought.
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Who were hunter-gatherers?
These people survived by employing the strategies of hunting animals and gathering wild plants rather than by planting crops and raising livestock.
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What are large-game hunts?
These events did occur.
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What are dueling voices?
These feature boxes that present either an ongoing historical debate or conflicting reports of the same event or ideas that were written around the time it occurred or emerged
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What are Africa and Latin America?
In these continents, the historical record is less full.
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What is social history?
This is guided by the concept that history is made by all people and not just elites.
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What was the Paleolithic Age?
This lasted until nearly twelve thousand years ago.
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What is animism?
This is the idea that a degree of spirituality exists not only in people but also in plants, inanimate objects, and even natural phenomena like fires.
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