Matching Pairs Civilization Terms (Matching)Online version Contains terms students need to understand civilization. by Angelia Cline 1 Religion 2 Nomads 3 Cuneiform 4 Agriculture 5 Cities and Government 6 Ziggurats 7 Social Classes 8 City-States 9 Scribes 10 Writing 11 Hieroglyphs 12 Polytheism 13 Pyramids 14 Monotheism 15 Hunter-gatherers Name for early humans who lived in small tribes and spent the majority of their time hunting for food to eat early cities formed in river valleys with governments created to resolve conflicts over land, water, and trade; one of the four features of civilization the religious belief in, and worship of, one god people who stay on the move looking for food, without a permanent home A person specially trained to read, write, and keep records A city that has its own independent government, as well as control of surrounding land another word for farming and the foundation of civilization; led to the settling of river valleys where civilization began a royal tomb built for kings during Egypt’s Old Kingdom; very large and triangular shape a form of writing that uses wedges and lines; created by the Mesopotamians developed out of the need for record-keeping for trading and planting; one of the four features of civilization divisions in society based on wealth and power; arose from the division of labor created by farming which allowed people to do different jobs arose from questions early humans had about the world and consists of rituals for birth, death, and warfare; one of the four features of civilization the site of the temple to the main god or goddess; not only a religious center, but also a center of political activities the religious belief in, and worship of, many gods a system of picture-like writing created by the ancient Egyptians; some pictures stand for ideas or things and other pictures stand for sounds
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