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Davino's Social Studies Words [others can use if liked]
Social Studies words for test for 6th
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History
6th Grade
09/14/2010

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History
Definition
A record of events of people
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prehistory
Definition
Before history; the events in the period of time before writing was invented
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archaeologist
Definition
A scienctist who examines objects such as bones and tools to learn about past people and cultures
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oral traditons
Definition
Accounts of the past that people pass down through word of mouth
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geography
Definition
The study of the earths surface and the process that shapes it
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hominid
Definition
a modern human or a member of an earlier grop that may include ancestores or relitavs of modern humans
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Stone Age
Definition
a period of time in which people tools and weapons from stone,the earliest known time period of human history
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nomad
Definition
a person who travels to feed his flock
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domesticate
Definition
to adapt wild plants for human use, to tame wild animals and breed them for human for human use
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irrigation
Definition
a method of supplying land with water running through a series if canals
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surplus
Definition
more of a product or thing than needed
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artisian
Definition
a skilled worker who paints or trades such as jewlery making, ceramics or sculpture in aztec community artisians were third most important class under royal or religous leaders
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civilization
Definition
a society with citys and central government run by offical leaders and workers who specalize in certain jobs leading to social classes characterized by writing an archatects
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social class
Definition
a group or class that is made up of people with similar income, background, and shelter
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