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Global 9 Review
part 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Social Scientists | The people who study the world in which humans live. |
| Historians | Study written records of past events. |
| Geographers | Study earth's surface and its impact on humans. |
| Political Maps | Show counties, their borders, and capital cities. |
| Topography | Physical land features. |
| Climate | Weather. |
| Human Migrations | Movement. |
| Physical Maps | Shows land features such as mountains, rivers, deserts, lakes, etc. |
| Economists | Study how societies use available resources. |
| Anthropologists | study past, and present of human cultures. |
| Artifacts | Physical remains. |
| Archaeologists | Study the physical remains of a culture |
| Primary Source | First hand record |
| Secondary Source | Second hand record |
| Neolithic Age | New stone age |
| Key developments of this period | Humans first discovered how to perform agriculture and domesticate animals for food or drink |
| Key developments of this period | Humans switched from being nomads to settling down |
| Key developments of this period | farming create a steady food supply |
| Key developments of this period | villages turned in to civilization |
| Key developments of this period | farming |
| Civilization | a complex and highly organized society |
| river valleys | low areas of land next to rivers |
| Reasons civilizations developed near river valleys | flooding rivers deposited silt |
| Reasons civilizations developed near river valleys | people irrigated crops |
| Reasons civilizations developed near river valleys | source of transportation |
| Early river civilizations | Nile River, Tigris River, Euphrates River, Indus River, Yellow River, and Yangtze River. |