Toward Civilization

PattenChapter #1

Global History & Geography

Vocabulary

• Geography• Latitude• Longitude• Anthropology• Culture• Archaeology• Historians• Nomads

• Animism• Domesticate• Civilization• Polytheistic• Artisans• Empires• Cultural Diffusion

Geography

• Geography is the study of people, their environment, and the resources available to them.

Latitude

• Latitude measures distance north or south of the Equator.

Longitude

• Longitude measures distance east or west of the Prime Meridian, an imaginary line that runs north to south through Greenwich, England.

Anthropology

• Anthropology is the study of the origins and development of people and their societies.

Culture

• Culture refers to the way of life of a society that is handed down from one generation to the next by learning and experience.

Archaeology

• Archaeology is a branch of anthropology that studies past people and cultures.

Historians

• Historians study how people lived in the past.

Nomads

• Nomads are people moving place to place as they followed game animals and ripening fruit.

Animism

• Animism is the belief in a spiritual world were the world was full of spirits and forces that might reside in animals, objects, or dreams.

Domesticate

• Domesticate, or tame, animals that were once hunted. Now hunters rounded them up into enclosures and provided people with a source of protein

Civilization

• Civilization is a complex, highly organized social order.

Polytheistic

• Polytheistic is the belief in many gods

Artisans

• Artisans are skilled craft workers, who made pottery or finely carved or woven goods

Empires

• Empires are a group of stats of territories controlled by one ruler

Cultural Diffusion

• Cultural Diffusion is the spread of ideas, customs, and technologies from one people to another. It can occurred through migration, trade and warfare.