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- subsistence farming
- raising just enough food crops for survival.
- agricultural revolution
- where things are done to help farmers produce more crops for less money.
- nomads
- people who wander from place to place.
- domestication
- taming of animals, such as cattle, goats, sheep and pigs.
- agriculture
- raising of crops or food; farming.
- division of labor
- characteristic of civilization in which different people perform different jobs.
- hunter-gatherers
- early people who lived by hunting animals or gathering plants for food.
- artisans
- skilled workers.
- Bronze Age
- the time period where bronze tools were being produced.
- hieroglyphics
- form of ancient writing maded by the Nile River Valley people.
- papyrus
- kind of paper made by egyptians from a plant stem.
- polytheism
- belief in many gods
- monotheism
- belief in only one god
- Rosetta Stone
- the first clue to decodeing hieroglyphics, black basalt stone found in 1799 with inscriptions on it.
- dynasty
- family of rulers whose right to rule is hereditary.
- cuneiform
- Sumerian writing made by pressing wedges into clay tablets.
- ziggurats
- Sumerian temples made of sun-dried brick.
- alphabet
- a system where symbols represent sounds.
- money economy
- economic system based of the use of money as a measure of value and a unit of account.
- monsoons
- winds that mark the seasons in India.
- caste system
- complex form of social organization.
- Hellenistic culture
- "greek-like" way of life.
- loess
- fertile, yellow soil.
- dikes
- walls built along sides of river to prevent floods.
- bureaucracy
- government organized into different levels and tasks.
- animism
- belief that spirits inhabit everything.
- Confucianism
- teachings by Confucius that told about the importance of family, respect for one's elders, and reverence for the past abd one's ancestors.
- Daoism
- philosophy where people where to withdraw from the world and contemplate with nature.
- agora
- marketplace in a city-state in Greece.
- democracy
- government in which citizens take part.
- phalanx
- military formation composed of rows of soliders standing side by side.
- patricians
- powerful landowners who controlled Roman government and society.
- plebians
- farmers and workers who made up most of Roman population.
- legionnaires
- Roman soldier helments made with bronze or iron.
- equites
- class of business people and land owners in ancient Rome who had wealth and power.