World History: Vocabulary Review - Chapter 1

2. People who study how people lived in the past.
3. The long period of time before people invented systems of writing.
4. The belief in many gods.
7. The study of the origins and development of people and their societies.
9. State A political unit that included a city and its surrounding lands and villages.
12. The way of life of a society that is handed down from one generation to the next by learning and experience.
15. The study of past people and cultures.
16. Objects made by human beings that Archaeologists study.
18. Less fertile land or sparse, dry grasslands.
19. Simple drawings that looked like the objects they represented.
20. Belief that the world was full of spirits and forces that might reside in animals, objects, or dreams.
21. People who moved from place to place as they followed game animals and ripening fruit.
22. Measures distance east or west of the Prime Meridian.

1. A complex and highly organized social order.
5. A sheet of ice.
6. To tame.
8. The study of people, their environments, and the resources available to them.
10. Diffusion The spread of ideas, customs, and technologies, from one people to another.
11. Extra of something.
13. Specially trained people learned to read and write.
14. Refers to the skills and tools people use to meet their basic needs.
16. Skilled craft-workers.
17. A group of states or territories controlled by one ruler.
22. Measures distance north or south of the Equator.