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Unit 2 Vocabulary: Understanding Ancient Civilizations and Environments

Dive into the vocab of ancient civilizations: culture, region, place, and more. Learn the significance of human-environment interactions and key terms like conquest, cooperation, and domestication. Explore the impact of agriculture, innovation, and movement on societies. Study valuable resources, irrigation, floods, silt, and mountain geography. Discover the historical significance of Mesopotamia, the Fertile Crescent, the Tigris River, and the Euphrates River. Enhance your understanding of ancient worlds through these terms.

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Unit 2 Vocabulary: Understanding Ancient Civilizations and Environments

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  1. Good Morning! Please get out your Interactive Notebook. In your table of contents please add “Unit 2 Vocabulary”

  2. Notebook Set Up Word What I think it means Real Definition

  3. The Words • Civilization, Region, Place, Human-Environment Interaction, Conquest, Cooperation, Domestication, Agriculture, Innovation, Movement, Resources, Irrigation, Flood, Silt, Mountains, Mesopotamia, Fertile Crescent, Tigris River, Euphrates River

  4. Civilization • A culture marked by developments in arts, sciences, government, and social structure

  5. Region • an area that is defined by certain similar characteristics. Those unifying or similar characteristics can be physical, natural, human, or cultural. 

  6. Place • an area that is defined by everything in it

  7. Human-Environment Interaction • the relationships between people and their environment; how people adapt to the environment and how they change it

  8. Conquest • the act or process of conquering (to get or gain by force of arms)

  9. Cooperation • to act, work, or associate with others so as to get something done

  10. Domestication • To train a wild animal to be useful to humans

  11. Agriculture • The business of farming

  12. Innovation • a new idea, method, or device

  13. Movement • the way people, products, information and ideas move from one place to another

  14. Resources • something such as useful land, or minerals such as oil or coal, that exists in a country and can be used to increase its wealth

  15. Irrigation • A means of supplying land with water

  16. Flood • a very large amount of water that covers an area that is usually dry

  17. Silt • Fine particles of rock

  18. Mountains • an elevation higher than a hill

  19. Mesopotamia • In ancient times, the geographic area located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Present day Iraq.

  20. Fertile Crescent • an ancient area of fertile soil and important rivers stretching in an arc from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates.

  21. Tigris River • one of the two main rivers of Mesopotamia. The Tigris is the river to the east.

  22. Euphrates River • one of the two main rivers of Mesopotamia. The Euphrates is the river to the west.

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