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World History Vocab

A way to study World History.

TermDefinition
Antropology Antropology is the study of how humans beings behave , how they act together, where they come from from, and what makes one group different from another.
Archaeologists Archaeologists study human life in the past by examining the things people left behind.
Prehistory Prehistory, or the time before written records, archaeologists look for places where people may have lived.
Fossils Fossils are hardened remains or imprints of living things that existed long ago.
Geologists Geologists, scientists who study the physical materials of Earth itself, such as soil and rocks.
Artifacts Artifacts are anything made and used by humans.
Evidence Something that can be shown to prove something.
Conclude To decide as a result of thinking or reasoning.
Huntergathers Early humans that lived by hunting small animals and gathering plants.
Cultures Includes the many different elements that make up the way of life of a people.
Complex Having many related parts; not simple.
Migration A migration is when people leave their homeland to live somewhere else.
Environment An environment is an area or surrounding.
Adapt To adapt is to change their way of life, to better suit the environment.
Networks A closely interconnected group of people or things.
Populate To become inhabitants of an area.
Potential Possibility to grow and change in the future.
Animism To early humans, there were spirits in the animals they hunted.
Domesticate Means to change the growth of plants or behavior of animals in ways that are useful for humans.
Revolution A revolution is a complete change in ways of thinking, working, or living.
Reliable Dependable, steady, not risky.
Adapt To adapt is to change their way of life, to better suit the environment.
Networks A closely interconnected group of people or things.
Surplus A surplus is when families were able to have more food than needed.
Populate To become inhabitants of an area.
Specialization Specialization occurs when people spend most of their time working at a single job or craft.
Potential Possibility to grow and change in the future.
Economy An economy is the system that a community uses to produce and distribute goods and services.
Animism To early humans, there were spirits in the animals they hunted.
Domesticate Means to change the growth of plants or behavior of animals in ways that are useful for humans.
Revolution A revolution is a complete change in ways of thinking, working, or living.
Reliable Dependable, steady, not risky.
Nomads Nomads are people who move place to place move from place to place with their herds.
Surplus A surplus is when families were able to have more food than needed.
Specialization Specialization occurs when people spend most of their time working at a single job or craft.
Economy An economy is the system that a community uses to produce and distribute goods and services.
Benefit To gain; favorable result.
Accumulate To collect or attain a large amount of something.
Fertile Cresent Is a reigion of the Middle East that stretches in a large, cresent-shaped curve from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean sea.
Mesopotamia A wide, flat plain in the present-day Iraq.
Irrigate To supply water to crops.
City-state An independant state that includes a city and its surrounding territory.
Barter A trading system in which people exchange goods directly without using money.
Distinct To seperate, different.
Polytheism The belief in more than one god.
Prosper To gain in wealth.
Ziggurats In longer Sumerian cities, temples were pyramid-shape brick towers known as Ziggurats.
Cuneiform A system of writing that uses triangular-shaped symbols to stand for words, ideas, or sounds.
Empire Is a state containing several countries or territories.
Ally Is an independant state that works with other states to achieve a shared military or political goal.
Cultural trait Is an idea or way of doing things that is common in a certain culture.
Hammurabi's Code A set of laws that governed life in the Babylonian empire.
Rule of law The idea that all members of a society must obey the law.
Abundant Plentiful
Govern To control or strongly influence.
Monotheism The belief that there is only one God.
Ethics The ideas of right and wrong.
Torah This consists of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible.
Convernant A binding agreement.
Exodus The excape of Israelites from slavery in Egypt.
Commandment An order to do something.
Eventually After a time.
Compel Force.
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