| A | B |
|---|
| culture | set of beliefs, knowledge and patterns of living that people have developed |
| Neolithic Agriculture Revolution | the process that shifted people from food gathering to food producing |
| hominids | humans and other humanlike creatures |
| irrigation | systems used to bring water to their fields and crops |
| domestication | use of wild animals that provided early people with another source of food |
| civilization | the ability to produce extra food, towns with some form of government, and people doing specialized jobs |
| artifact | objects that reveal information about the lives of early people |
| division of labor | advanced societies that caused people to specialize in farming and some people to make tools and other goods |
| nomads | early humans who wandered from place to place |
| hunting and gathering | way of life before the development of agriculture |
| river valleys | where first civilizations developed |
| cultural diffusion | the spread of ideas and other aspects of a culture |
| indus, Nile, Huang, Tigris and Euphrates | 5 river valley civilizations |
| calendars | used to help with farming lands |
| Cro-Magnons | painted pictures on cave walls |
| Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age | order of human development, from earliest to latest |
| copper | first metal that people used |
| Neanderthals | religious belief; buried meat and tools with their dead |
| characteristics of civilizations | system of writing and system of government |
| bronze | used to make tools and was more plentiful that copper |
| Neolithic people | more advance in food gathering and tool making techniques than Paleolithic people |
| agriculture | helped change human life by allowing people to settle in towns |
| Africa | continent where early forms of man originated |
| writing | helped with communication and record keeping |
| 4 oceans | Arctic, Pacific, Atlantic, Indian |
| 7 continents | North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica |
| Equator | 0 degree latitude line; runs west to east |
| Prime Meridian | 0 degree longitude line; runs north to south |
| Paleolithic | Old Stone Age |
| Neolithic | New Stone Age |
