Vocabulary 1
The system by which a country's people make a living
What is economy?
A person who moves from place to place without a permanent home
What is a Nomad?
Farmers built permanent shelter using
What is a mixture of mud and straw?
Powerful military leaders ruled Uruk as:
What are Kings?
A complex society with cities, an organized government, and specialized worders is called a
What is a civilization?
An extra amount of something
What is a surplus?
Concentrating on limited number of goods, activities, or jobs
What is specialization?
An economy is the system and community uses to produce and _________ goods and services
What is distribute?
Religion was often linked to
What is government?
The earliest villages and civilizations appeared in
What is Sumer?
To change in order to fit new conditions or surroundings
What is adapt?
The movement of people from one place to another
What is migration?
An abundant food supply means
What is a large amount of food?
The wealth of Uruk and other early cities attracted many
What are newcomers?
When people lived in a permanent place, they were able to have more?
What are possessions?
The surroundings or conditions in which people, animals, and plants live
What is environment?
A supply of something that can be used when needed is called a
What is a resource?
Historians consider ______ to be the world's first city
What is Uruk?
A group of people living in similar economic conditions is called?
What is a social class?
The belief that the natural world is full of spirits
What is animism?
To become an inhabitant of one Place
What is populate?
The world's first cities began as:
What are farming villages?
To keep gods and goddesses happy, priests offered
What are sacrifices?
With the development of writing, people moved from prehistory to
What is recorded history?