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chapter one terms
world history
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Artifact | an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest. |
| culture | the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively. |
| Technology | the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry. |
| hunter- gatherer | a member of a nomadic people who live chiefly by hunting, fishing, and harvesting wild food. |
| neolithic revolution | wide-scale transition of many human cultures from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement, allowing the ability to handle an increasingly larger population. |
| domestication | he process of adapting wild plants and animals for human use. Domestic species are raised for food, work, clothing, medicine, and many other uses. |
| ciliviation | the process by which a society or place reaches an advanced stage of social development and organization. |
| specialization | structural adaptation of a body part to a particular function or of an organism for life in a particular environmentb |
| institution | a society or organization founded for a religious, educational, social, or similar purpose. |
| bronze age | time period characterized by the use of bronze, proto-writing, and other early features of urban civilization. |
| ziggurat | a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple. Ziggurats are first attested in the late 3rd millennium BC and probably inspired the biblical story of the Tower of Babel |
| barter | the action or system of exchanging goods or services without using money. |
| artisan | a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand. |
| scribes | a person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented. |
| cuneiform | denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets. |
| Catal Huyuk | archaeological site in what is now south-central Turkey. Along with Jericho, it's considered one of the oldest cities in the world, dating from almost 7500 BC. |
| slash and burning farming | method of agriculture used in the tropics, in which forest vegetation is felled and burned, the land is cropped for a few years, then the forest is allowed to reinvade. |
| nomads | a member of a people having no permanent abode, and who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock. |
| hominid | a primate of a family ( Hominidae ) that includes humans and their fossil ancestors. |
| lucy | Lucy is the most complete australopith skeleton yet discovered, being about 40 percent intact. |
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