History Chapter 1

A form of writing that uses symbols or pictures to represent things, ideas, and sounds.

• Maize

• terrace

• hieroglyphic

• theocracy

a person who moves from place to place

• civilization

• nomad

• migration

• culture

To supply water to crops by artificial means

• irrigate

• terrace

• archeology

• artifact

the study of material remains of ancient peoples

• federation

• carbon dating

• archaeology

• theocracy

a government that links and unites different groups

• federation

• migration

• culture

• theocracy

A scientific method of determining the age of an artifact

• hieroglyphic

• archaeology

• strait

• carbon dating

a tool, weapon, or other object left behind by earlier peoples

• culture

• archaeology

• hieroglyphic

• artifact

a society that is ruled by religious leaders

• theocracy

• federation

• irrigate

• migration

a broad platform of flat land cut into a slope

• irrigate

• maize

• civilization

• terrace

a narrow passage of water between larger bodies of water

• terrace

• irrigate

• strait

• nomad