Vocab (Semester 1)

the study of the past based on what people left behind

• history

• geography

• artifact

• archaeology

an object created and used by humans

• artifact

• resource

• cuneiform

• trade

religion is based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama

• Buddhism

• Judaism

• Hinduism

• Polytheism

the division of Indian society into groups based on rank, wealth, or occupation

• social
  hierarchy

• caste
  system

• social
  pyramid

• nirvana

a political unit consisting of a city and its surrounding countryside

• civilization

• city-state

• culture

• Neolithic
  Era

an organized society within a specific area

• city-state

• civilization

• culture

• Sumer

the knowledge, beliefs, customs, and values of a group of people

• resource

• culture

• social
  hierarchy

• civilization

the world's first system of writing, invented by the Sumerians

• cuneiform

• hieroglyphics

• pictographs

• Rosetta
  Stone

a triangle-shaped area of land made from soil deposited by a river

• delta

• monsoon

• Fertile
  Crescent

• subcontinent

training animals to make them more useful to humans

• agriculture

• domestication

• Neolithic
  Era

• culture