History: Chapter 1 Vocabulary

Match the term with the vocabulary word.

• Culture

• Long period of time before people invented writing.

• Archaeology

• the study of orgins and development of people and their societies

• Artifacts

• way of life of a society

• Prehistory

• the study of past people and culture through material remains

• Anthropology

• object made by humans

Match the term with the definition

• Technology

• Anthropologist who in the 1930's searched for clues to the human past in Tanzania- Olduvai Gorge

• Old Stone Age/Paleolithic Period

• 1. the skills and tools people use to meet their basic needs and wants

• Donald Johnson

• 1. period from about 10,000 BC until the end of prehistory

• New Stone Age/Neolithic Period

• period from 2 million BC to about 10,000 BC

• Mary and Louis Leakey

• anthropologist who in 1974 found evidence of early hominids in Ethiopia

Match the term with the definition.

• 1. Surpluses

• 1. belief that the world was full of spirits and forces that might reside in animals, objects, or dreams

• 1. Animism

• 1. more than necessary, being capable to produce an extra supply

• Nomad

• 1. transition from nomadic way of life to settled farming

• 1. Domesticate

• 1. plants and/or animals that are raised in a controlled way that makes them best suited for human use

• 1. Neolithic Revolution

• 1. people who move from place to place to find food

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Match the term to the definition.

• 1. Scribes

• 1. sparse, dry grasslands

• 1. Pictographs/pictograms

• 1. specially trained people who could read and write

• 1. Steppe

• 1. relies on habit, custom, or ritual that tends not to change over time

• 1. Traditional Economy

• 1. simple drawings that look like the objects they represent

Match the term with the definition.

• 1. Empire

• 1. the spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one culture to another

• 1. City state

• a complex highly organized social order.

• Civilization

• 1. a political unit that included a city and its surrounding lands and villages

• 1. Cultural Diffusion

• 1. a group of states or territories controlled by one ruler