Vocab
The practice of farming plants and taming animals
What is Agriculture?
The geographic feature all of the earliest civilizations were built around
What is a River (valley)?
What was the Agricultural Revolution?
When humans first started farming
When major geographic feature is Ancient Egypt Built around?
The Nile River
A type of person or community that does not stay in one place and is always moving around
What is a Nomad?
The Continent humans originally came from
What is Africa?
A type of person who does not farm or raise animals to get food
What is a hunter-gatherer?
What was the Main reason pyramids were built?
To honor/keep dead bodies/tombs
Focusing on one job rather than doing everything
WHat is Specialization?
A geographic feature where a river flows into an ocean/sea
What is a Delta?
Because farming created a more stable food supply, people could stay in one place and build _____________________.
Permanent Settlements
Egyptians preserved bodies and made mummies so they could enter the _____________.
What is the Afterlife?
A structure built to honor somebody, something, or an event
What is a monument?
Mesopotamia developed between these two rivers
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
Once societies started farming they had ________ or extra food.
Surplus
Egyptians believed before going to the afterlife they would be judged by a scale with ________ on one side and ___________ on the other.
Heart, Feather
a stone container holding a coffin
what is a sarcophagus
The Last continents Humans migrated to
North/South America
What are the two biggest changes to human life from the Agricultural Revolution? (Not just "they started farming" what was the impact?)
- permanent settlements
- Specialization
This primary source is a papyrus (paper) with a series of spells and descriptions of the underworld usually found in tombs
What is the Book of the Dead?