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Ancient Civilizations Terms
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Social Studies
6th Grade
11/14/2011

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Inhabited

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live in an area

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migration

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the process of relocating to a new region.

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Domestication

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The rising and tending of a plant or an animal to be of use of humans.

 

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Civilization

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An advanced state of intellectual, cultural, and material development in human society.

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City state

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A political unit made up of a city and its surrounding lands.

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Rituals

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The prescribed order of religious ceremony.

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Merchant

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One whose occupation is the wholesale purchase and retail sale of goods for profit.

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Hieroglyphics

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A writing sustem using picture symbols.

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Famine

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A drastic, wide-reaching food shortage.

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Provinces

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A territory governed as an administrative or political unit of a country or empire.

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terraced farming

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A level shelf of land

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Empire

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A political system in which people and lands are controlled by one ruler.

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