Basic Terms

Basic Terms to Know

​Learn These Terms

​Archeology

​The study of past societies through an analysis of the items people left behind them

The study of human life and culture based on artifacts and human fossils

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​Anthropology

The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.

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Religion

​Religion consisting of more than one god or goddess

Polytheistic

Religion consisting of one supreme god.

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Monotheistic

​Early human species

​Hominid

Relating to or denoting the later part of the Stone Age, when ground or polished stone weapons and implements prevailed.

​Neolithic

​Relating to or denoting the early phase of the Stone Age, lasting about 2.5 million years, when primitive stone implements were used.

​Paleolithic

Time period after the neolithic era where metal was being used to construct advance tools and weapons. This era saw the rise of the city.

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​Bronze Age

Advanced farming that includes the harvesting of crops, and the domestication of animals

​​Agriculture

​An independent sovereign city which serves as the center of political, economic, and cultural life over its contiguous territory.

​City-State

​A government that is ran by religions figures and uses the gods and their rules as policy and legal decision makers.

​Theocracy

​“Wedge-shaped”; a system of writing developed by the Sumerians using a reed stylus to create wedge-shaped impressions on a clay tablet

​Cuneifrom

​Most important building in a Mesopotamian City. It served both religious and a government purpose. People would gather their to solve disputes and ask for favors

​Ziggurat

​This is a customer complaint letter written to a metal supplier for the wrong amount and poor quality of the copper that was dropped off. It demands a refund or corrective action before the courts are involved.

The more things change...

This one says,

"There are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end: Bribery and corruption are common. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book."

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Again...

Open Ended

What would your old world yelp (or google) review of business sound like?

Match

Match the following

Archeology

Anthropology

Neolithic

Paleolithic

• Archeology

• Anthropology

• Neolithic

• Paleolithic

Multiple Choice

What does Monotheism mean?

• Having multiple deities

• Having only one deitiy

• The king makes the religious decisions

• The religion is not written down

Draw

Draw a bronze age tool

Open Ended

Explain all of the elements of "Agriculture"

Multiple Choice

What was Cuneiform?

• The earliest religion

• The earliest form of a political structure

• One of the earliest writing systems

• An old technology relating to irrigation