Global History Midterm Flash Cards

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Title: Global History Midterm
Description: FUCK MY LIFE
Number of Cards: 20
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Author: timmy.bouderau
Created: 2012-01-22
Tags: social studies
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    • Side 3
    • Artificats
    • Object made by human beings
    • Fossils
    • Remains of a prehistoric organism preserved in petrified form or as a mold or cast in rock
    • Civilization
    • Complex, highly organized social order
    • Primary Sources
    • Authentic Source, legal document
    • Geography
    • Study of people, their environments, and their resources
    • Economics
    • Branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption and transfer of wealth
    • Physical Map
    • Shows landforms like deserts, mountains and plains
    • Political Map
    • Shows governmental boundaries of countries, states, and counties
    • Social Sciences
    • The scientific study of human society and social relationships
    • Anthropology
    • Study of human socities and cultures and their development
    • Archaeology
    • Study of past people and cultures
    • Culture
    • Way of life of a society that is handed down from one generation to the next by learning and experience
    • Neolitic Revolution
    • Domesticate their animals and became permanant settlers.
    • Hunter-Gathers
    • Palleolithic time period how they obtained their food
    • Nomads
    • Person who moves from place to place in search of food
    • Traditional Economy
    • Decisions based on family/community/tradation/substanance agricultural form for family only.
    • Tigiris-Euphrates River Valley
    • Early River valley civilization provided much of the water that supported the developement of the Mesopotamia culture
    • Mesopotamia
    • Land between two rivers
    • Nile River Valley
    • In Egypt, fertile soil, helped civilization aride achivements: mummfication and the the pyramids
    • Yellow River/ Huang He River Valley
    • Early River Valley civilization Fertile (dynastic cycle, legalism, daoism)