Anthropology
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- Xian (pronouncec "Chin") the Merciless
- built the first Chinese pyramid
- stereotype
- generalized, often negative view of individuals or groups
- pueblo
- means town or village
- invention
- a new way of doing something
- excavation
- another word for a dig
- data
- information
- more
- laws are made to enforce these
- culture
- the entire way a society is organized
- ethnocentrism
- the idea that one's culture is surperior to all others
- traits
- characteristics
- physical anthropology
- the study of human evolution
- pyramids
- found in China, Egypt, and Mexico
- parents
- people from whom children first learn about their culture
- archeology
- study of ancient cultures
- grid
- system of horizontal and vertical lines
- terra cota warriors
- guarded Xian's pyramid for 2000 years
- taboo
- very serious rules of society
- 2500 years before Christ
- When was Imhotech born?
- material culture
- things a society makes and uses for survival and growth
- language
- a set of signs and symbols used in communicating thoughts
- one million
- number of stones in the Great Pyramid
- set square
- the tool Hemienu used to level the stones of
- dig
- an archeological excavation
- non-material culture
- the idea, values, and beliefs of a culture
- behavioral science
- sciences that try to figure out why humans do what they do
- enculturation
- the process of learning one's culuture
- artifact
- something made or used by an ancient culture
- folkway
- a polite way of doing something
- norms
- a society's rules of behavior
- anthropology
- study of human cultures