A | B |
Nomads | Hunters and Gatherers; move from place to place |
Neolithic Revolution | Turning Point; move to farming, settlements |
Cultural Diffusion | sharing of ideas and beliefs between groups of people |
Technology | advance in tools |
Migration | Movement |
Primary Source | Source that is direct evidence of an event, idea or person |
Psychology | the study of the human mind |
Economics | the study of production, consumption, and transfer of wealth by humans, $ |
Secondary Source | A source that is written or spoken about by someone who did not actually take part in the event |
Sociology | the study of human behaviors |
Polytheistic | belief in many gods, (more than one) |
Pharaoh | Egyptian Ruler |
Fertile Crescent | "cradle of civilization", Mesopotamia, Tigrus and Euphrates Rivers, land between 2 rivers |
Ziggurats | Sumerian Pryamids, shrines |
Cuneiform | wedge-shaped writing formed by pressing a pen-like instrument into clay |
Code of Hammurabi | Babylonian ruler, set up a public set of law, "eye for an eye" |
Middle Kingdom | China believed their culture was "Center of the earth", they were #1, isolated |
Dynasty | ruling family in China |