Ch.1
Many different elements that make up the way of life of a people
What is culture?
Migration.
What is when people moved from one region of the world to another?
One of the most important signs of a complex culture is the existence of this.
What is artworks such as paintings and statues?
More food then they needed to eat.
What is surplus?
Cities, government, writing, established religion, job specialization, social classes, public works, and arts and architecture.
What are the 8 features of civilization?
This allowed developers to cook meat and see at night.
What is fire?
Networks
What are groups of families?
A belief that the natural world was filled with spirits.
What is animism?
Occurs when people spend most of their time working at a single job.
What is specialization?
Volcanic glass.
What is obsidian?
These peoples lived by hunting small animals and gathering plants.
What are hunter-gatherers?
A popular children's movie featuring a mammoth and a sloth.
What is the Ice Age?
Another sign that a culture is complex having to do with their dead.
What are burials?
The world's first largest city.
What is Uruk?
the people who traded salt, dried fish and pearls.
What are traders from the coast?
This is the era in which tools were first made.
What is the Paleolithic Era?
A.K.A your surroundings.
What is your environment?
To change the growth of plants or behavior of animals in ways that are useful for humans. This may take many years.
What is domestication?
The system that a community uses to produce and distribute goods and services.
What is an economy?
prolonged period of little or no rainfall
What is a drought?
Excavation.
How do archaeologists look for evidence of early people or how do they find artifacts?
Africa
Where did humans originate from?
People who move from place to place with their herds.
What are nomads?
This changed the way people dressed.
What is agriculture or farming?
represents a symbol, sound, word, or idea.
What are hieroglyphics?