Test 1 Flashcards
Nomadic
Nomadic people are moving place to place instead of having a settled community
Colonies
Meaning to be a country or region that has been taken over by another state
Fatal Huyuk
Probably the worlds first city in modern day Turkey
Hunter-gatherers
People who live by hunting animals & gathering food in the wild.
Cuneiform
A writing system in which lines are drawn as wedge shaped marks
Agriculture
Farming and herding animals.
Fossils
Remains of plants or animals that have been found in rocks
Palaeontologist
A scientist that studies fossils
Homo-ergaster
The first human like species found in Africa.
Middens
Coastal refuse heaps that contain evidence of the past.
Fertile Crescent
A crescent shaped piece of land that had fertile dirt that grew many crops, and now houses Iraq, Kuwait, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and Palestine
Flint
A stone that creates sparks when struck against another stone, it was also used to make spear-heads.