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Global 9: Unit 2A
Early Humans & River Valley Civilizations
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| agriculture | زراعت or farming |
| artifacts | آثار باستانی or ancient objects |
| burial site | قبر or grave (where dead people are buried) |
| civilization | تمدن or organized society |
| chronological | زمانی or in order from first to last |
| Code of Hammurabi | قانون حمورابی or a set of ancient laws (Mesopotamia) |
| cultivate | کشت کردن or to grow (as in crops) |
| cultural diffusion | انتشار فرهنگی or the sharing of cultures and beliefs |
| cuneiform | خط میخی or an early form of writing in clay (Mesopotamia) |
| domesticate | اهلی کردن or to tame (اهلی کردن) wild animals |
| ethnocentrism | قوممحوری or believing your culture is the best |
| favorable | مساعد or good |
| fertile soil | خاک حاصلخیز or soil that is good for plants to grow |
| flood | سیلاب or when water in a river overflows and covers dry land |
| harmony | هماهنگی or peace |
| hierarchy | سلسلهمراتب or a system where people are ranked from lowest to highest in power, money or influence. |
| hieroglyphics | ط هیروگلیف or a system of writing with pictures/pictographs (Egypt) |
| hinder | مانع شدن or to make difficult/hard |
| hunter-gatherers | شکارچیان و گردآورندگان or people who survive by finding food in the wild |
| invadors | مهاجمان or people who enter a country and try to control it |
| Mandate of Heaven | فرمان آسمان or the right to rule (China) |
| monotheistic | یکتاپرست or the belief in one god |
| Neolithic Revolution | انقلاب نوسنگی or the time when people began farming and domesticating animals |
| nomads | کوچیها or people who move from place to place |
| Paleolithic | دوران پارینهسنگی or the Old Stone Age (people were hunter-gatherers) |
| peasants | دهقانان or poor, working class people |
| permanent | دائمی or lasts for a long time |
| polytheistic | چندخدایی or the belief in many gods |
| pyramids | اهرام or triangle-shaped structures built to be burial sites for pharaohs (فرعون) (Egypt) |
| Rosetta Stone | سنگ روزتا or a stone that translates Egyptian hieroglyphics |
| social class | طبقهٔ اجتماعی or a group of people who have similar power, money and influence. |
| social mobility | تحرک اجتماعی or the ability to move from one social class to another |
| specialization | تخصص or when people can focus on one job or skill instead of doing everything |
| subsistence farming | زراعت معیشتی or farming only what you need to survive |
| temporary | موقتی or lasts for a short time |
| universal | جهانی or something for everyone |
| ziggurats | زیگوراتها or large pyramids build as temples for religious ceremonies (Mesopotamia) |
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