This scientist studies the remains of civilizations by excavating ruins and reviewing artifacts.
What is an archaeologist?
100
This is the belief in many gods.
What is Polytheism
100
Prior to the domestication of plants and animals and the formation of permanent settlements, most ancient humans survived by following the food source, better known as this.
What is hunting and gathering
100
This word means just enough food to meet the needs of the immediate family.
What is subsistence agriculture
100
What is it called when different countries rely on each other for goods resources and knowledge?
What is interdependence
200
This is a man made object studied by archaeologists.
What is an artifact?
200
The act of taming animals for food, clothing, and labor.
What is domestication
200
This was a transformation in world history when people went from being hunters and gatherers to domesticating plants & animals and learning to farm.
What is What is the Agricultural (Neolithic) Revolution?
200
When one country believes their culture is better than everyone else's.
What is ethnocentrism
200
What did the development of early civilizations depend on?
What is plentiful water supply (river valleys) and fertile land
300
A scientist who studies cultures from the past and present.
What is an anthropologist?
300
This is where civilizations first developed.
What are river valleys?
300
These sources are particularly useful to historians because they provide a first hand account of events.
What is primary source
300
When the man is the head of the family.
What is patriarchal
300
What does Scarcity mean, why do we have to be careful with it in our society?
What is not an infinite amount of and we need to be careful because resources are limited.
400
This is a way of life that includes diet, religion, and artistic achievements?
What is Culture
400
The exchanging of ideas and goods between different groups of people.
What is cultural diffusion
400
What does interdependence mean?
What i is the reliance of people on goods, resources, and knowledge from other parts of the world.
400
The government controls most aspects of life in which type of system?
What is Totalitarian society
400
Which social scientist primarily studies how people change resources into goods and services?
What is an economist
500
Pre-history is the time period before humans developed this form of communication.
What is prehistory
500
What kind of system deals with hunting and gathering, subsistence agriculture and the teaching of values especially within the family?
What is a Traditional economy
500
Where did the first early humans appear?
What is in Africa
500
Name at least two characteristics of a Civilization.
What are centralized governments, organized religions, social classes, and specialization of labor.
500
Why do we study history?
What is to learn where we came from, learn from our mistakes, and understand the world in which we live.