Section 1 voc.
Complex, highly organized social order
What is a Civilization?
object made by human beings a long time ago
What is an artifact?
distance north or south of the Equator
What is latitude?
extra or excess
What is surplus?
Location, place, movement, region & human-environment interaction
What is the 5 themes of geography?
belief that spirits and force live in animals, objects or dreams
What is animism?
distance east or west of the Prime Meridian
What is longitude?
person who studies how people lived in the past
What is Historian?
sparse, dry grassland
What is a steppe?
Geologists, Botanists, Zoologists, Biologists, Physicists, and Chemists
What is type of scientist who helps archaeologists?
person who moves from place to place in search of food
What is a nomad?
study of the origins & development of people and their societies
What is anthropology?
Study of people, their environments and their resources
What is geography?
Believing in many gods
What is polytheistic?
used to measure time accurately to help early farmers know when to plant and harvest
What is a calendar?
tame animals and adapt crops for the purpose of cultivation
What is domesticate?
period of time before writing systems were invented
What is pre-history?
tools and skills people use to meet their basic needs
What is technology?
drawing used to represent a word
What is a pictogram?
Cities, well-organized central governments, complex religions, job specialization, social classes, public works, writing, and arts/architecture
What is the eight features of most early civilizations?
thick sheet of ice that covered parts of the Earth
What is a glacier?
study of past people and cultures
What is archaeology?
Way of life of a society that is handed down from one generation to the next by learning and experience
What is culture?
group of states or territories controlled by one ruler
What is an empire?
Tigris & Euphrates River, Nile River, Indus River, and Yellow River
What are the rivers in which early civilizations emerge?