people
Archaeologist
Large flat areas that have few trees and are good for grazing animals.
Grasslands
Most civilizations had a way of dividing up the population based on the types of jobs they did. These were known as _________________.
Social Classes
A ______ was a person who wrote down documents for others to read in ancient languages.
scribe
Areas where water covers some spots and other spots have dry land are called _____________.
Wetlands
A person who does not have a set home, but travels from place to place looking for food.
A story told by people in order to teach a lesson that often involved God or gods.
Myth
Most advanced civilizations developed a system of ____________ in order to communicate and convey ideas.
Writing
Many civilizations used this as a way to trade in situations where goods were exchanged for coin rather than other goods.
currency
The shape, elevation, and surface of land is known as ______________.
Terrain
A group of people who live together in one place and have a set culture and government system.
The building projects that make a city function like roads, sewers, and bridges.
Infrastructure
In order to obtain goods that they lacked, many civilizations needed to _____________ with other nearby places.
trade
Using columns to build large structures was a hallmark of the _______________ architecture.
Ancient Greek's
Many civilizations formed near __________ which were used as a source of water and transportation.
Rivers
A person who studies the text and writings of a group of ancient people is known as an ____________
Historian
A group of items or people that are the same.
Homogeneous
Most civilizations were good at using animals to do jobs and as a food source. These type of animals, raised on farms, were known as ___________.
Domesticated
When items that make things easier for people are developed, that new development is known as ___________________.
Technology
Means the belief in multiple gods.
polytheism
Most social classes in ancient societies were based on a person's ___________.
Job
An elevated area of flat land.
Plateau
In total, civilizations needed to have a high level of _____________ in order for historians to consider them civilized.
Organization
When new ideas spread from one place to another in the world the process is known as cultural _____________.
Diffusion
If there is a shortage of a product or good it is sometimes know as a ______________ of that good. Think Halloween.
scarcity