Vocabulary
Excess production beyond immediate needs or consumption
What is surplus?
Members of a ____________ extended family unit often shared common ancestors, resources, and social responsibilities.
What is a clan?
What is Cultural diffusion?
Hand-copying documents, maintaining logs, and preserving information
What is Record Keeping?
What is a temple?
Corn, historically known as ________, served as a primary ________ crop that supported large populations across early American civilizations.
What is maize and staple?
Tracing lineage, inheritance, and clan membership through the mother's line
What is Matrilleneal?
Early human groups organized systems of ____________ to establish order, enforce laws, and manage public resources.
What is government?
In ancient societies, a professional trained to read, write, and maintain public records was known as a:
What is scribe?
The place where a cultural trait, idea, or innovation originates
What is Cultural Hearth?
Shared practices, beliefs, and sacred rituals formed the core of a society's ____________.
What is religion?
Why is the development of a food surplus essential to the growth of a civilization?
What is It allows individuals to become specialized workers, such as artisans, priests, or scribes.
The science and technology of extracting, refining, and working with metals
What is Metallurgy?
As settlements grew into dense urban centers, a ____________ served as the economic and administrative hub for the surrounding region.
What is city?
The exchange of goods, ideas, and resources between different regions through ____________ connected distant cultures.
What is trade?