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Flashcards by nadiab7497, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by nadiab7497
about 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| culture | a group's knowledge, beliefs, values, and customs |
| cultural diffusion | spread of customs, beliefs, language, govt. and family |
| ethnocentrism | belief that your own race/ethnicity is most important and aspects of your culture are superior |
| nomads | first humans of the Stone Age lived as this; hunter-gatherers |
| Neolithic Revolution | the shift from hunting-gathering to farming |
| slash-and-burn method | fields cleared by cutting and burning vegetation and ashes used to fertilize soil |
| irrigation | canals and ditches were used to bring water to crops |
| Why did settlements develop along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers? | The water supply and silt left over after floods was good for farming. |
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