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BASIC Global vocabulary

BASIC Global vocabulary. Paleolithic Era : prehistoric period that lasted from about 2,500,000 to 8,000 BC; during which people made use of crude stone tools Neolithic Era : prehistoric period that began about 8,000 BC where people learned to farm & domesticate animals

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BASIC Global vocabulary

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  1. BASIC Global vocabulary Paleolithic Era:prehistoric period that lasted from about 2,500,000 to 8,000 BC; during which people made use of crude stone tools Neolithic Era:prehistoric period that began about 8,000 BC where people learned to farm & domesticate animals Epic:long narrative poem celebrating the deeds of heroes Code of Hammurabi:first system of laws recorded & displayed in the Mesopotamia civilization by ruler Hammurabi Culture: all the things that make up a people’s way of life

  2. BASIC Global vocabulary 6. Monotheism: worship of one God 7. Polytheism: worship of more than one God 8. Technology: skills and tools a people use 9. Cultural Diffusion: movement of customs or ideas from one place to another 10. Ethnocentrism: judging other cultures by the standards of one’s own culture 11. Nomad: member of a hunting people who travel from place to place to find food

  3. 12. Agriculture:the cultivation of animals & plants fro food 13. Modernization: changes in a nation that enable it to set up a state government and produce a high level of goods and services 14. Civilization: highly organized group of people with their own language and ways of living 15. Scarcity:limited resources to satisfy unlimited wants and needs 16. Traditional Society:society that makes economic decisions based on customs and tradition

  4. 17. Economist:a professional that studies the impact of scarcity and the allocation of scarce resources 18. Archeologist:study of human activity in the past, through the recovery of artifacts 19. Geographer:the study of Earth's natural environment and human society 20. Terracing:farming done by cutting steps into the mountains to optimize growing space

  5. 21. Subsistence farming:growing one needs to survive • 22. Famine:prolonged period of lack of food • 23. Theocracy:form of government in which a deity is officially recognized as the civil Ruler and official policy is governed by officials regarded as divinely guided • 24. Monsoons:seasonal winds • 25. Mandate of Heaven:belief that rulers were chosen by a supreme being • 26. Dynasty:sequence of rulers considered as members of the same family

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