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Early Civilizations

8th grade SS

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Weapons, tools, and other things made by humans. What is an artifact?
Person who studies and writes about the human past. What is a historian?
The story of humans in the past. What is history?
Person who regularly moves from place to place. What is a nomad?
The earliest part of the Stone Age and means "old stone" What is the Paleolithic Age?
Period where people started farming, building communities, producing goods, and trading. What is the Neolithic Age?
Tools and methods used to help humans perform tasks. What is technology?
To tame animals and plants for human use. What does it mean to domesticate?
Where people in different parts of the world discovered how to grow crops at about the same time. What is the farming revolution?
A complex society with cities, organized government, art, religion, class divisions, and a writing system. What is a civilization?
Is greek for "the land between the rivers" and is the earliest known civilization. What is Mesopotamia?
The belief of god. What is monotheism?
An independent state made up of a city and the surrounding land and villages. What is a city-state?
A skilled craftsperson. What is an artisan?
A Sumerian system of writing made up of wedge-shaped makings. What is a cuneiform?
A record keeper. What is a scibe?
Means "tablet house" and was the world's first school. What is an edubba?
A group of territories or nations under a single ruler or government. What is an empire?
Is the belief in and worship of multiple goddesses. What is polytheism?
Is a writing object. What is a stylus?
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