World History Vocab (Chapter 1)
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- History
- record of events cince people first developed writing, about 5000 years ago
- prehistory
- period of time before people kept written records.
- civilizations
- highly organized society with complex institutions and attitudes that link a large number of people together
- anthropologists
- scientists who study the skeletal remains of early humanlike creatures and people to determine how they looked, how long they lived, and other physical characteristics.
- hominids
- human beings and earlier human-like creatures.
- archeologists
- scientists who excavate anchient settlements and study artifacts.
- artifacts
- human-made material objects, for example, a tool, weapon, or a coin.
- culture
- what humans aquire by living together-- language, knowledge, skills, art literature, and life styles
- raidocarbon dating
- technique that allows the age of organic matter to be identified by measuring the rate of decay of radiocarbon atoms.
- glaicers
- large, slowly moving masses of snow and ice
- Ice Age
- time when Earth had extremely cold weather
- agriculture
- raising crops and livestock for food
- nomads
- wanderer who travels from place to place in search of food.
- domestication
- to tame animals, such as a dog.
- Neolithic Revolution
- shift from food gathering to food production in prehistoric times.
- division of labor
- characteristic of civilizations in which different people perform different jobs
- irrigation
- method of transporting water for crops based on the use of ditches and canals.
- artisans
- skilled crafts workers
- cultural diffusion
- spred of culture from one area of the world to another