Complex Societies
What is a complex society?
A society with many connected parts, jobs, and systems.
What does trade mean?
Exchanging goods or services with others.
What is cultural exchange?
When people share or learn about each other's ways of life.
A society with many connected parts, jobs, and systems.
Complex Society
Two groups exchange salt for gold. What is this called?
Tarde
Name two characteristics of a complex society.
Cities, governments, social class, writing/record-keeping, religion, trade, technology, or different jobs.
Why do people trade with other societies?
To get things they need or do not have.
Name two things people can share through culture.
Food, music, language, art, clothing, or traditions.
A complex society with organized communities and systems.
Civilization
A family leaves its home and moves to another region to find water and food. What is this called?
Migration
Job specialization is when people focus on one specific job or skill. Give an example
farming, building, or trading.
How can traders spread new ideas?
They meet people from other places and share what they know.
How can people share ideas with other societies?
Through trade, travel, or migration.
Exchanging goods or services with others.
Trade
A group of people shares its music, food, and building techniques with another group. The other group begins using some of these new ideas. What is this called?
Cultural exchange
Why did many early societies live near rivers?
Rivers provided water and good soil for farming.
A village has extra grain but needs tools. How could trade help?
The village could trade its grain for tools.
When migrating what can people bring with them when they move?
Their language, beliefs, skills, and traditions.
Moving from one place to another to live
Migration
A European country takes control of land in the Americas and sends settlers to live there. What is this called?
Colonization
Name 2 ways how Societies Interact?
Trade,Cultural exchange,Migration,Religion,Conquest,Colonization
How did rivers and seas help ancient societies trade?
They provided routes for boats to carry goods to other places.
Give one reason people move to a new place.
To find food, water, land, or safety.
Sharing ideas, beliefs, languages, and traditions between societies.
Cultural Exchange
Merchants travel to a new region and introduce their religious beliefs to local communities. Which category best describes the beliefs being spread?
Religion