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Total of knowledge, attitude, and behaviors shared and passed on by members of a specific group. Main elements include: religion, clothing, food, where you live, music, and art.
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Chapter 1 Vocab
Human Origins and early civilizations vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The vast period of time before written records or human documentation. | Prehistoric |
| Total of knowledge, attitude, and behaviors shared and passed on by members of a specific group. Main elements include: religion, clothing, food, where you live, music, and art. | Culture |
| A group of people who move from one place to another, either with their livestock or subsisting on hunting and gathering. | Nomad |
| People who support themselves by hunting, fishing, and gathering wild edible plants and insects. | Foragers |
| is the name given to the last 11,700 years of the Earth's history — the time since the end of the last major glacial epoch, or "ice age." | The Holocene |
| A very large usually rough stone used in prehistoric cultures as a monument or building block. | Megalith |
| The sum of techniques, skills, methods, and processes used in the production of goods or services or in the accomplishment of objectives. | Technology |
| The belief that natural objects, natural phenomena, and the universe itself possess souls. These religions are polytheistic and have been practiced in almost every part of the world. | Animism |
| The worship of, or belief in, multiple deities, usually assembled into a groups of gods and goddesses, each with their own specific religions and rituals. This was the form of most early civilizations. | Polytheism |
| A system that relies on customs, history, and time-honored beliefs Societies with these economies depend on agriculture, fishing, hunting, gathering, or some combination of them. They use barter instead of money. | Traditional economy |
| A political system consisting of an independent city having control over surrounding territory and serving as a center and leader of political, economic, and cultural life. | City-states |
| The process of growing or taming wild plants and animals for human use | Domestication |
| The spread of cultural beliefs and social activities from one group of people to another. different ethnicities, religions, and nationalities has only increased with advanced communication, transportation, and technology. | Culture fusion |
| A group of nations or peoples ruled over by an emperor, empress, or other powerful sovereign or government: usually a territory of greater extent than a kingdom. | Empire |
| A pyramidal stepped temple tower that is an architectural and religious structure characteristic of the major cities of Mesopotamia | Ziggurate |
| A system of writing used in the ancient Middle East meaning “wedge-shaped,” This was the most widespread and historically significant writing system in the ancient Middle East. | Cureiform |
| form of picture writing used by the Egyptians. More than 2,000 hieroglyphs are used in ancient Egyptian writing. | Hieroglyphics |
| Is a material similar to thick paper that was used in ancient times as a writing surface. It came from a plant that grows in Egypt and was used by many in the Middle East. | Papyrus |
| Is defined as the belief in one god and is usually positioned as the polar opposite of polytheism, the belief in many gods. | Monotheism |
| process, or result of stating the rules and principles applicable in a given legal order to one or more broad areas of life in this form of a code | Code of Hammurabi |
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