Unit 1 vocab

NOMADS

• a member of a community without fixed habitation who regularly moves to and from the same areas.

• the process of adapting wild plants and animals for human use

neolithic revolution

• the process of adapting wild plants and animals for human use

• the radical and important period of change in which humans began cultivating plants, breeding animals for food and forming permanent settlements

dynastic cycle

• an important political theory in Chinese history.

• the doctrine or belief that there is only one God.

domestication

• the stage of human social and cultural development and organization that is considered most advanced.

• the process of adapting wild plants and animals for human use

monotheism

• the doctrine or belief that there is only one God.

• the process of concentrating on and becoming expert in a particular subject or skill.

civilization

• the stage of human social and cultural development and organization that is considered most advanced.

• the process of concentrating on and becoming expert in a particular subject or skill.

specialization

• a member of a nomadic people who live chiefly by hunting and fishing, and harvesting wild food.

• the process of concentrating on and becoming expert in a particular subject or skill.

Hunter-Gatherers

• the belief in or worship of more than one god.

• a member of a nomadic people who live chiefly by hunting and fishing, and harvesting wild food.

filial piety

• an attitude of respect for parents and ancestors in societies influenced by Confucian thought

• an ancient Mesopotamian temple tower consisting of a lofty pyramidal structure built in successive stages with outside staircases and a shrine at the top

polytheism

• the belief in or worship of more than one god.

• the boomerang-shaped region of the Middle East that was home to some of the earliest human civilizations.