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9th Grade Chapter 1
Toward Civilization
Question | Answer |
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Political unit that includes a city and its surrounding lands. | City-State |
People gave up nomadic life and settled down to farm. | Neolithic Period |
People who move from place to place in search of food. | Nomad |
The study of people. their environment, and resources available to them. | Geography |
Why is geography important to history? | It shows connections between people places and events. |
The skills and tools people use to meet their basic needs. | Technology |
The study of ways of life of early people through examinations of their physical remains. | Archaeology |
Spread of ideas, customs, and technology from one people to another. | Cultural Diffusion |
Study how people lived in the past by studying written evidence. | Historians |
Large pices of ice. | Glacier |
Objects made by people such as tools, weapons, pottery, clothing, and jewerly. | Artifact |
A long period of time before people invented a system of writing. | Prehistory |
Pople gave up nomadic life and settled down to farm. | New Stone Age |
Earliest period of human history. | Paleolithic Age |
Neolithic Revolution | The changing from hunting and food gathering to farming. |
A system of managing governemnt through departments run by appointed officials. | Bureaucracy |
Belief in many gods. | Polytheistic |