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WORLD HISTORY
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EARLY HUMANS
CITY-STATE: a state with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside.
POLYTHEISTIC: believing n many gods.
ZIGGURAT: a massive stepped tower on which was a temple dedicated to the chief god or goddess of Sumerian city.
TRANSPORT: the moving of goods or people.
THEOCRACY: a government established by divine authority.
CUNEIFORM: "wedge-shaped", a system of writing developed by the Sumerians using a reed stylus to create wedge shaped impressions on a clay tablet."
THEORY: hypothesis or unproved assumption
ARCHAEOLOGY: the study of past societies through analysis of the items people left behind.
ANTHROPLOLGY:the study of human life and culture based on artifacts and human fossils.
ARTISAN: a skilled worker who makes products such as weapons and jewelry.
CULTURE: the way of life people follow.
CIVILIZATION: a complex culture in which large numbers of people share a number of common elements such as social structure, religion and art.
PRIESTS: in early urban civilizations, important and powerful people who supervised rituals aimed at pleasing Gods and Goddesses.
HOMINID: human and other human-like creatures that walk upright.
HOMO SAPIENS SAPIENS: "wise, wise humans" a species that appeared in Africa between 150,000 and 200,000 years ago; they were the first anatomically modern humans.
SURVIVE: to remain alive or in existence.
OUT-of-AFRICA THEORY: also called the replacement theory; this theory refers to when Homo sapiens began spreading out of Africa to other parts of the world 100,000 years ago & replacing populations of earlier hominids in Europe and Asia.
SYSTEMATIC AGRICULTURE: the keeping of animals and the growing of food on a regular basis.
ROLE: a socially expected behavior pattern.
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