Dates
What does BCE and CE stand for?
Before Common Era
Common Era
Shaking hands when you meet someone for the first time is an example of WHICH element of culture?
Customs and traditions
Hunting and gathering is a characteristic of WHICH era?
Paleolithic Era
In ancient China, the flooding of the Yellow River led governments to organize large-scale projects like dikes and canals to protect farmland and control water.
What element of culture is the environment effecting?
Government systems
Who studies human cultures, traditions, and societies?
Anthropologists
A decade is how many years?
10 Years
What type of economy is based on hunting and bartering?
Traditional Economy
Permanent settlements is a characteristic of which era?
Neolithic
Native American tribes in the Great Plains created art using buffalo hides, because buffalo were central to their survival in that environment.
What element of culture is being influenced by the environment?
Arts and Literature
Who studies and tells the story of the past?
Historians
How many years is a millennium?
100 Years
Most American children are grouped by grade/age group until they graduate. This is an example of WHICH element of culture?
Social Organization
True or False:
The Paleolithic Era is the Stone Age and the Neolithic Era is the Bronze Age
False: The Neolithic Era is still the Stone Age "New Stone Age"
Ancient Egyptians worshipped the Nile River as a god because its floods provided fertile soil needed for farming.
What element of culture is the environment influencing?
Religion
This part of culture exists to create laws, keep order, and provide protection.
Government
The year 1619 is in which century?
The 17th Century
What vocab word did Nacirema teach us about?
What does that vocab word mean?
It taught us about ethnocentrism.
Ethnocentrism is the tendency to view ones own culture as normal or superior.
Job Specialization
In island nations like Fiji, many people make money by being fishermen because the surrounding ocean provides an abundance of fish and resources.
The environment is effecting which element of culture?
Economy
In this type of economy, traditions and customs decide what and how things are made.
Traditional Economy
Why don't historians use the terms BC and AD anymore?
They stand for Before Christ and "The Year of our Lord" which are Christian-centric. BCE and CE apply to people of all faiths.
Being able to choose what to buy but having to pay a sales tax is considered WHAT kind of economy?
Mixed economy
Define scarcity and how it contributed to the shift to the Neolithic era.
Scarcity is when there is not enough of something to meet the needs of the people who need it.
In the case of the Paleolithic Era, there was not enough food to hunt or gather for the population. So people needed to find another way to get food: Agriculture.
In the Sahara, people use desert sand and natural dyes from plants to create intricate carpet patterns that reflect their environment.
What element of culture is this being effected by the environment?
Arts and Literature
Saying the Pledge of Allegiance at school each morning is an example of this element of culture.
Customs and Traditions