Social studies vocab
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- antiquity
- the quality of being ancient or old
- cultivated
- prepared an dused for raising crops
- polytheistic
- believed in many gods
- contemporary
- existing, occuring, or living at the same time
- zenith
- the highest point
- vindictive
- disposed to seek revenge
- Hammurabi
- they take sumer and start a new city
- democracy
- a gov by which people rule
- superficial
- concernd with and understanding only the easily apparent or obvious
- incursions
- a hostile entry into a territory
- entrepreneurial
- willing to take risks in order to make a profit
- ecological
- studying the relations between human groups and their physical and social environments
- cooperative
- works well with other people
- colonization
- an establishment of a colony
- Neolithic
- people learned to polish stone tools, make pottery, and grow crops etc.
- pastoralism
- the economic system based on the raising and hearding of livestock
- prodigious
- wonderful, marvelous, big
- millenium
- a period of 1000 years
- prominence
- widely known, eminent
- reciprocal
- inversely related or proportional
- shamanistic
- talking to spirits
- paleolithic
- old stone age
- aristrocratic
- socially exclusive(snobish)
- philosophy
- the search for wisdom or knowledge
- anthropologist
- studies culture, societies, and human reactions
- Archeologist
- people who uncover history
- excavations
- the act of digging
- prominence
- someone who stands out due to wealth, imortance, or heroism
- Sophists
- philosopher/ thinker
- catastrophic
- a sudden and wide spread disaster
- stupendousley
- amazing large or great
- monarchy
- a king/queen who have absolute control over the country or city-state
- industrialized
- the building of machines and factories
- artifact
- something made by man
- theocracy
- when its a god king and is also a religious ruler
- technology
- man making something to improbe his existence
- Dynasty
- goes from father-son ruling
- domestication
- the taming of animals for human use
- sophisticated
- very smart
- ostracism
- a method of temporary banishment by popular vote without trial or special accusation practiced in ancient Greece.
- commercial
- producing artistic work of low standards for quick market success
- prosperous
- having success, well off
- classical
- a period of time
- monarchy
- when one person rules and they are a king- they rule because their father was the king. From father to son
- imperialism
- the policy of extending authority of an empire over another country or region