| A | B |
|---|
| Nomad | Paleolitic people that moving from place to place |
| Glacier | Thick sheet of ice that people face was one of the challenges they faced |
| Animism | Beliefs that the world was full of spirits and forces that might reside in animals, object or dreams |
| Domesticate | People herded animals to good grassland to provide people with a source of protein |
| Simple tools and weapons | Advances people made during the Old Stone Age |
| Evidence of statues burried | Way of learning about the religious beliefs of early people |
| People became food producers and led to growth | reason the Neolithic agriculture revolution was a turning point in hisotry |
| Paleolithic age | Earliest civilization dating back to 3m years back. Simple Stones |
| Mary and Louis Leakey | founder of many tools, bones and other artifacts |
| Neolithic age | marked the end of the Old Stone Age. Self-sufficent. |
| Civilization | a complex, highly oranized social order |
| Surplus | extra food cultivated in fertile lands along river valleys |
| Polytheistic | believed in many Gods |
| Artisan | skilled craftworkers was a job specialization |
| Pictogram | earliest writing or drawing found that looked like the objects they respresented |
| Scribe | special trained people learned to read and write due to complexity |
| City-State | a political unit that encluded a city and its surrounding lands and villages |
| Empire | a group of states or territories controlled by one ruler. |
| Steppe | less-fertile lands, dry grasslands nomadic herders tended cattle, sheep, goat, etc. |
| Cultural diffusion | the spreading of ideas, customs, and technologies was their interactions among people |
| Three causes of cultural change | through migration, trade and warfare |
| Ruler and priest controlled the land requestiog supporting the government and temples | linked in gov. and religion |
| Eight features found in most early civilization | Organized gov., complex religions, job specialization, social classes, arts and architecture, pulic works, writing, cultural diffusion |
| Reason for Calendars | to measure time acurately to harvest |
| Four river valley early civiliz. emerged from | Eqypt, Mesopotamia, India and China |
