Vocab Topic 1 6th grade

Civilizations

• Complex Society

• Old Places

• Early Stone Age

Archaeologist

• scientist who studies objects to learn about past human life

• scientist who studies the earth

• scientist who studies human culture

• scientist who studies objects left behind by dinosaurs

People who move from place to place as a group to find food

• Nomads

• Itinerant Preachers

• Rural

• Urban

the set of beliefs, behaviors, and traits shared by a group of people

• culture

• civilization

• doctrine

• irrigation

Times when glaciers covered much of the Earth's land

• ice ages

• cretaceous periods

• neolithic eras

an extreme change affecting people's lifestyle

• revolution

• middle school

• tectonic shift

a system that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes, or streams

• irrigation

• gardening

• semi-nomadic

• specialization

focusing on doing work that really uses your skills

• specialization

• generalization

• status

• irrigation

Artifact

• a place where people worship

• a pipe that water a field

• an item left behind by people

• a person's rank compared to others

a government whose ruler, a king or queen, inherits the position from a parent

• monarchy

• oligarchy

• democracy

• republic