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What is the past?
The term for the belief that spirits fill the natural world.
What is animism?
Before tools were made out of metal, they were made out of this material
What is stone?
In a community's ______________, goods and services are produced and distributed
The earliest people of the Mesopotamian rain forest probably survived by collecting food from plants and ____________ animals
What is hunting?
The time called prehistory is considered before ___________ _____________.
What are written records?
You can use domesticated animals for work.
True or False
What is false?
The first center of agriculture was located here
Where is Southwest Asia?
A community with cities, government, and specialized workers
What is a civilization?
The two areas that Mayan achievements most influenced other civilizations in Mesoamerica
What are astromony and mathematics?
A way that _____________-______________ got food is by using tools to kill animals
Who are the hunter-gatherers?
During a revolution, ___________ changes completely.
What is life?
_______________ includes people who are very good at one skill.
What is specialization?
This feature of civilization is a set of shared spiritual beliefs
What is religion?
The _______________ of food was at the center of the Mayan economy
What is production?
A _______________is an object made or used by humans.
What is an artifact?
A person who moves from place to place with no permanent home
Who is a nomad?
When there is a _____________ of food, families have extra food
What is surplus?
The approximate number of Mayans still alive today
What is about 7 million?
These people operated the Mayan trade network
Who are the traveling merchants?
Geologists are able to tell archaeologists how _______ fossils are.
What is how old?
The first animal to be domesticated
What is a wolf?
What is farming?
The Mayans worshipped many gods.
True or False
What is true?
Two types of large buildings that the Mayans constructed
What are pyramids and observatories?