Vocabulary for 10/9 Assessment Flashcards
Media
The written, spoken, and artistically communicated information existing as something that is broadcasted, displayed, or conveyed to communities without physical interaction
Ethnic Group
A community that has a shared heritage, meaning what area and culture their ancestry belongs to and where they live and what they believe in now, and who often live and celebrate their culture together
Anthropologist
Someone who studies how members of a culture or group live and interact, living as a part of them as to experience life through their own unique lens
Prejudice
What one culture believes, or is made to believe, is somehow wrong with another, attributing its people to stereotypes and accusing them of the values and beliefs that their community treasures
Racism
A genuine disliking of one culture by another: prejudice at its limit; what one culture sees as “different” about another is considered to be what is “wrong” with it, then allowing its members to see it as something wrong unto itself simply because it is unique
History
All combined information of records of the time since the invention of writing that is passed through time is by texts or spoken words
Prehistory
The time before the invention of writing, its lack of existing texts causing understanding it to be difficult
Archaeologist
The people who research past cultures or communities that no longer exist through items and remains that can still be found, digging and sifting through a location’s soil to find items that reveal information about groups that once resided there
Oral Tradition
The stories passed from generation to generation of a culture’s members and told through speech, conveying messages of and the culture’s history, mythology, and beliefs
Geography
The land, specifically its surface, which affects cultures and how they operate
Irrigation
The travel of water from water from natural waterways to human-made canals and ditches or other forms of fueling water-deprived land
Surplus
An amount of any item greater than what is needed; in the case of the New Stone Age, this related to an excess of food and water due to new discoveries made in agriculture
Artisan
Someone who creates items with their hands, often because they are particularly skilled in doing so, making baskets, tools, artistic creations, and more
Civilization
A society composed of members in several ranks and in several different occupations, containing cities with governments and institutions for its members
Social Class
a ranking of people with similar occupations or wages within a civilization, in other words, their social status; at the top of this system are royalty such as kings and queens, priests and nobles below them, then artisans and merchants, farmers and other workers, and lastly, enslaved people, who were considered part of a separate social class system
