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Social Studies Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Archeologist | An expert who studies the past by examining objects that people have left behind |
| Historian | An expert who studies and records the past |
| Geographer | An expert who studies and creates maps of earths natural and humanmade features |
| Artifact | An object made or used by people in the past |
| Prehistoric | Before written history |
| Ritual | Relating to a ceremony, such as a religious ritual |
| Stone age | The first period of prehistoric human culture, from about 2 million years ago to around 3000 B.C.E |
| Paleolithic Age | The first period of the Stone Age called the Old Stone Age, from about 2 million years ago to around 8000 B.C.E |
| Neolithic Age | The later part of the Stone Age called the new stone age, from 8000 B.C.E to about 3000 B.C.E |
| Domesticate | To train a wild animal to be useful to humans |
| Agriculture | The business of farming |
| Trade | The business of buying, trading or selling items |
| Ore | A mineral mined for its valuable uses |
| Social Structure | The organization of a community |
| Mesopatamia | In ancient times, the geographic area located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers |
| Sumer | An area in the southern part of Mesopotamia, where cities first appeared |
| city-state | An early city that was like a small independent country with its own laws and government |
| irrigation system | A means of supplying land/an area of land with water |
| Sumerians | An ancient people who lived in the ancient geographic land of Sumer |
| Levee | A wall of earth used to prevent water from flooding city-states and towns in ancient sumer |
| Pictograph | A symbol that stands for an object |
| Culture | A characteristic of a civilization that includes the beliefs and behaviors of a society or group of people |
| Civilization | A culture marked by developments in arts, sciences, government, social structure and other advancements |
| Technology | The use of tools and other inventions for practical purposes |
| Status | Importance |
| Chariot | A two wheeled vehicle pulled by a horse |
| Scribe | A person who writes |
| Ziggurat | An ancient Mesopotamian temple tower |
| Arch | An upside down U or V shaped structure that supports weight above it, as in a doorway |
| Cuneiform | Writing that uses wedge-shaped charaters |
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