Ch 1 Toward Civilization

Question 1

study of people, their environments, and their resources

Answer 1

geography

Question 2

distance north or south of the equator

Answer 2

latitude

Question 3

distance east or west of the Prime Meridian

Answer 3

longitude

Question 4

period of time before writing systems were invented

Answer 4

prehistory

Question 5

study of the origins and development of people and their societies

Answer 5

anthropology

Question 6

study of past people and their cultures

Answer 6

archaeology

Question 7

objects made by humans

Answer 7

artifacts

Question 8

way of life of a society that is handed down from one generation to the next by learning and experience

Answer 8

culture

Question 9

person who studies how people lived in the past

Answer 9

historian

Question 10

person who moves from place to place

Answer 10

nomad

Question 11

tame animals and adapt crops for the purpose of cultivation

Answer 11

domesticate

Question 12

complex, highly organized social order

Answer 12

civilization

Question 13

political unit made up of a city and the surrounding land

Answer 13

city-state

Question 14

spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another

Answer 14

cultural diffusion

Question 15

skilled craftworker

Answer 15

artisan

Question 16

group of states or territories controlled by one ruler

Answer 16

empire

Question 17

drawings used to represent words

Answer 17

pictograms

Question 18

believing in many gods

Answer 18

polytheistic

Question 19

specially trained person who knew how to read, write and keep records

Answer 19

scribe

Question 20

extra or excess

Answer 20

surplus

Question 21

dry, sparse grassland

Answer 21

steppe