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Global 9 Review
part 1
Term | Definition |
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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. |