Neolithic Revolution
Terms
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- Bureaucracy
- System of managing government through department run by appointed officials.
- Latitude
- Distance measured North and South of the equator
- Agriculture
- Cultivating soil, producing crops, and raising livestock; farming
- Scarcity
- Insufficiency of amount or supply; shortage
- Pictogram
- A picture representing a word or idea
- Migration
- the movement of persons from one country or locality to another
- Neolithic Revolution
- A time in history when people change from nomadic to settled farming.
- History
- The past
- Domestication
- The taming of animals for use of farming
- Polytheistic
- Belief in more than one God
- City - State
- A sovereign state consisting of an independent city and its surrounding territory
- Hunter-gatherers
- People who roamed from place to place in search of food
- Paleolithic
- The earliest period of human history
- Cultural Diffusion
- The blending of cultures resulting from the sharing of ideas and technology that often occurs through migration, trade, or war.
- Civilization
- The development of an organized way of living
- Neolithic
- The latest period of the stone age, first use of stone tools
- Prehistory
- The time before people invented systems of writing
- Scribes
- People who could read and write
- Public works
- Construction projects, such as highways or dams, financed by public funds and constructed by a government for the benefit or use of the general public
- Region
- More local area
- Longitude
- Distance measured East and West of the Prime Meridian
- Location
- Place on Earth
- Technology
- Tools and skills people use to meet their needs
- Artisans
- Skilled crafts worker
- Archaeology
- The study of the lives of early people through examination of their physical remains
- Geography
- The study of people, their environment and their resources