Chapter 1 Vocabulary - First Civilizations
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| Historians | are people who study and write about human past
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| Archaeologists | hunt for evidence buried in the ground
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| Artifacts | weapons tools and other things made by humans
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| Fossils | traces of plants or animals that have been preserved in rock
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| Anthropologists | study how humans developed and how they related to one another
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| Nomads | people who regularly move from place to place
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| Technology | tools and methods to help humans perform tasks
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| Domesticate | tame animals and plants for human use
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| Specialization | the development of different kinds of jobs
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| Civilizations | complex cities
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| Irrigation | method of bringing water to a field from another place to water crops
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| City-state | independent state made up of a city and the surrounding land and villages
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| Artisan | skilled worker who made metal products cloth or pottery
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| Cuneiform | Sumer writing system
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| Scribes | record keepers
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| Empire | group of many different lands under one ruler
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| Provinces | political districts
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| Caravan | groups of traveling merchants
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| Astronomer | people who study the heavenly bodies
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| Sargon | world's 1st known emperor
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| Hammurabi | known for the 1st law code
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| Nebuchadnezzar | Emperor of Chaldean Empire; built the Hanging Gardens
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