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1st Civs - bvick.wh
Chapter 1 Vocabulary - First Civilizations
| Answer | Clue |
|---|---|
| Historians | are people who study and write about human past |
| Archaeologists | hunt for evidence buried in the ground |
| Artifacts | weapons tools and other things made by humans |
| Fossils | traces of plants or animals that have been preserved in rock |
| Anthropologists | study how humans developed and how they related to one another |
| Nomads | people who regularly move from place to place |
| Technology | tools and methods to help humans perform tasks |
| Domesticate | tame animals and plants for human use |
| Specialization | the development of different kinds of jobs |
| Civilizations | complex cities |
| Irrigation | method of bringing water to a field from another place to water crops |
| City-state | independent state made up of a city and the surrounding land and villages |
| Artisan | skilled worker who made metal products cloth or pottery |
| Cuneiform | Sumer writing system |
| Scribes | record keepers |
| Empire | group of many different lands under one ruler |
| Provinces | political districts |
| Caravan | groups of traveling merchants |
| Astronomer | people who study the heavenly bodies |
| Sargon | world's 1st known emperor |
| Hammurabi | known for the 1st law code |
| Nebuchadnezzar | Emperor of Chaldean Empire; built the Hanging Gardens |