Early people who lived in the Paleolithic Era did not live in cities.

People who lived in the Paleolithic Era did know how to plant seeds to make food grow, and were capable of taming wild animals to raise for food.

Nomads are people who move around wherever to locate food.

Nomads had to be ready to follow the animals they hunted or to go where wild plants could be found.

Nomads typically built nice permanent structures to live in.

Nomads were great writers.

Some of the primary sources historians used include diaries, newspapers, government records, and eyewitness accounts.

An example of a secondary source is a History books and documentary.

People in the Arabian peninsula began to figure out that they could plant seeds to grow food around 20,000 BCE.

Neolithic Revolution allowed for those to stay in one place and build permanent structures.

AD dates = before Christ and negative numbers.

BCE stands for before common error

BCE dates count up.

If a date is mentioned without BCE or CE written after it, it is assumed that it is a CE date

All civilizations share only 7 common features.

Cities, job specialization, social class, writing, complex religion, government, public works, arts & architecture are the common features shared by civilizations.

Aesthetic = beauty

Only certain people can use public works.

Poly = many

Pictographs = symbols that stand for a word or idea

Ethnocentrism refers to the study of history from the point of view of a particular ethnic or cultural group. For example, people of European descent who studied only the history of Europe while ignoring the history of the rest of the world would be considered ethnocentric.

Artifacts are everyday objects left behind by historical people, which historians use to make inferences about their lives.