Vocabulary
What is a scientist who studies human life by examining the things people left behind?
Archaeologist
What are people who move to follow food?
Nomads
Rivers gave early people this to drink and use for crops.
Water
What is a group of people with a similar rank in society?
Social Class
What is changing your way of life based on your environment?
Adapt
What was the change from hunting and gathering to farming called?
Neolithic Revolution
Floods left this behind, great for farming.
Fertile soil
Where did the earliest civilization appear?
Southwestern Asia
What is the system by which goods and services are distributed?
Economy
TRUE OR FALSE: Farming made it harder for people to stay in one place.
False
Why did early people settle near rivers?
Water and Fertile Soil
Name the 8 features of civilization.
Cities, Organized Government, Established Religion, Job Specialization, Social Classes, Public Works, Arts and Architecture, and a System of writing.
What is the belief that the natural world is full of spirits?
Animism
When farming led to more food than people needed, this was called
Surplus
the Nile, the Tigris and the Euphrates, the Indus, and the Huang River
What is the shape used to depict social classes?
Pyramid
What is a complex society that has cities, a well-organized government, and workers with specialized job skills?
Civilization
Name two ways farming changes daily life.
People settled in villages, steady food supply, population growth, specialized jobs.
Explain how living near a river helped a village grow into a civilization.
Water and fertile soil led to better farming, which led to a surplus, job specialization, and growth into cities.
Government