Quizlet Social Studies

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  1. 4 types of homonids: Australopithecine,Homo Habilis,Homo Erectus,and Homo Sapiens
  2. 5 themes of Geography: Location,Place,Region,Movement,Human-Enviroment Interaction.
  3. 5 Traits of Civilization: Advanced Cities,Advanced Technology,Complex Institutions,Record Keeping, and Specialized Workers
  4. 7 countries of Central America: Belize,Costa Rica,El Salvador, Guatamala,Hondouras,Nicaragua, and Panama
  5. Catal Huyuk: The Catal Huyuk was a really old complex village and it was very religeous. It was nicknamed the Temple City, and it started around 6,500 B.C.
  6. Charachteristics of a Complex Village: A lot of people.Religous Centers.Trade/Economy.Agriculture.Homes
  7. City-state: A city and its nearby farmlands
  8. Civilization: A human society with more advanced things than Complex Villages
  9. Cuniforn: The type of writing Sumerians used.
  10. Domesticate: To tend or raise an animal or plant to be used by humans.
  11. Drought: A long period with little rain and less water.
  12. Elements of Prehistoric culture: Religeon,Language,and Art
  13. Examples of Socialized Skills: Farming,warrior,religous leader,etc
  14. Fire: 5000 B.C.
  15. Floodplain: Flat land bordering the water
  16. Geography: The study of earth and it's people
  17. Government: A system for creating order and providing leadership
  18. Hammurabi: The first king to create a legal code(laws)
  19. Homolosine Projection: This map shows the oceans, but the measurments are off.
  20. Homonids: Any creature that walks on two feet
  21. Hunter Gatheres: Nomads who hunted and gathered food.
  22. Inevtions Sumerians made: Bronze,The days of the week, and writing
  23. Irrigation: When you dig ditches by the river for water for your crops.
  24. King: A leader a very high ranking peron,who controls his city.
  25. Latitude: A measure of distance north or south of the equator
  26. Longitude: A measure of distance east or west of the Prime Meridean
  27. Lucy: The first human. She existed around 3.5 million B.C.
  28. Mercator Projection: A map that shows most of the continents but, it streches out the north and south poles
  29. Mesolithic Age: An era between 10,000 to 6000 B.C., and was known for contrling fire and developing language
  30. Mesopotamia: The land between two rivers
  31. Migration: To move from a place to another
  32. Neanderthals: Neanderthals (Homo Neanderthalensis) were a extinct species or sub species (Homo Sapiens) that lived in the middle of the Paleothic Age
  33. Neolithic Age: An era between 8000 and 3000 B.C. and was known for pottery, farming, and weaving
  34. Paleolithic Age: An era between 2.5 million and 8000 B.C., and was known for the use of stone tools.
  35. Physical Map: A map that shows a continent, and shows the natural things created.
  36. Political Map: A map that shows a continent, and what people created.
  37. Polytheism: A belief in more than one god or goddeses,that the Sumerians believed in.
  38. Primary Source: A historical event that was written about by people who witnessed it..
  39. Religeon: The worship of a god,gods, or spirits.
  40. Robinson Projection: This shows the earth, but the north and south poles are flatened
  41. Secondary Source: A historical event written after it happened
  42. Silt: Fine fertile soil after a flood.
  43. Slash and Burn: To cut down trees and to burn the feild to make fertile soil for crops to grow
  44. Social class: A group of people who's parent's jobs were for example warrior, farmer,etc
  45. Sumer: The first civilization which rose around3300 B.C.
  46. Surplus: When you have an extra of something
  47. Technology: The use of one's mind to create what is neaded. Like in Sumer they created the days of the week,cuniform,and bronze.
  48. The 13 South American Countries: Argentina ,Bolivia,Brazil,Chile,Columbia,Ecuador,French Guiana,Guyana,Paraguay,Peru,Surinam,Uruguay,Venezuela
  49. The Six Big Ideas: Beleifs,Culture,Economics,Geography,Government,and Science and Technology.
  50. The Start of Farming: Farming started around 8000 B.C.
  51. The two rivers: Tigris and Euphrates
  52. Thematic Map: A map that shows any kind of informattion. For example it can answer:How many people speak Spanish in(South America,North America,etc.)
  53. Tropic of Cancer: A Latitude line that runs parralel to the equator and is 23.5N
  54. Tropic of Capricorn: A latitude line that runs parralel to the equator and is 23.5S
  55. Villages start: Villages started around 5000 B.C.
  56. Writing starts(cuniform): Writing started around 3000 B.C.
  57. Ziggurat: An ancient Sumerian or Babylonian temple that rose in steplike levels,and was used to observe the stars,and was like a city hall.