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River valley civilizations flash cards
River Valley civilizations
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Social Studies
6th Grade
03/05/2013

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Hunters and Gatherers
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people who hunter their food and gather plants to make food.
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Nomads
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people who do not live in a permanent settlement and are always moving around to keep up with their food.
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Neolithic Revolution
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the major turning point in world history when the people decided to settle down and not be nomads anymore.
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domestication

 

 

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to make animals tame and make them pets and to culvate plants and plant them in different places
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Agriculture

 

 

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to farm
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Silt

 

 

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fine sand carried by water.
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Surplus

 

 

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a variety of food or having more food than you need.
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Permanent Settlement

 

 

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a place you live and you do not move away or travel around all of the time.
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Division of Labor

 

 

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after the neolithic revolution happened we had a surplus so we did not need as many farmers so we could make more that would be a help to our community.
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Technology

 

the practical use of knowledge to meet humans needs and wants.

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Innovation

 

a new method, project, or idea.

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Irrigation

 

supplying dry land with water or pretty much farming.

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Social Class

 

how people are divided up like kings and peasents.

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Civilization

 

a place were it is civilized and people live there.

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Mesopotamia

 

an ancient region in modern day Iraq.

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Tigris nad Euphrates

 

two rivers that

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