World History - Chapter 1

The study of past societies through analysis of what people left behind?

• Archaeology

• Anthropology

• Homind

• Home sapiens sapiens

The study of human life and culture?

• Anthropology

• Archaeology

• Hominid

• Homo sapiens sapiens

A humanlike creature that walked upright?

• Hominid

• Homo sapiens sapiens

• Out of Africa Theory

• Culture

Meaning "wise, wise, human"

• Homo sapiens sapiens

• Out of Africa Theory

• Culture

• Civilization

This theory refers to when Homo sapiens, sapiens began spreading out of Africa to other parts of the world about 100,000 years ago and replacing populations of earlier hominids in Europe and Asia?

• Out of Africa Theory

• Culture

• Civilization

• Confluences

A term that refers to ways of living?

• Culture

• Civilization

• Confluences

• Priests

A complex culture in which large numbers of human beings share a number of common elements?

• Civilization

• Confluences

• Priests

• City-States

The places where two rivers or streams join to become one, are often especially fertile for farming?

• Confluences

• Priests

• City-States

• Ziggurat

In early urban civilizations, an important and powerful person who supervised rituals aimed at pleasing gods and goddesses?

• Priests

• City-States

• Ziggurat

• Theocracy

A state with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside?

• City-States

• Ziggurat

• Theocracy

• Cuneiform