soc mid term
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- sunsistence fariming
- provide the basic needs of only the farmer
- traditional society
- living the way your ancestors lived
- culture
- a way of life
- cultural diffusion
- the spreading of ideas or products from one culture to another
- interdependence
- depending on each other
- sociology
- the science that deals with fundamental laws of social relations institution
- anthropology
- the science that deals with the origins physical and cultural development biological chatacteristics and social customs and beliefs of humankind
- economics
- the science that deals with productions distribution and consumption of goods
- geography
- the science dealing with the area differentiation of the earths surface elements such as soil elevation climate vegetation population land use industries or states
- primary source
- firsthand source of history like a diary.
- secondary source
- second hand source of history like a text book
- self sufficiency
- able to supply ones own or its own needs without assistance
- neolithic revolution
- the major change in life caused by the beginning of farming from the major shift from good gathering to food producing
- nomad
- no permanent home/ from place to place
- topographical map
- detailed mapping
- ethnocentrism
- the belief in the inherent superiority of ones own ethnic group
- matriarchal society
- a social system where the mother is the head of the family
- patriarchal
- a social system where the father is the head of the family
- monotheism
- a belief in a single god
- polytheism
- the belief in more than one god
- desertification
- a transformation of fertile land into desert
- deforestation
- to divest / to clear forests trees
- hunter and gatherers
- member of a nomadic group whose food supply depends on hunting animals and collecting plant goods.
- agricultural surplus
- agricultural production