Culture Terms Flashcards

241237971	culture	way of life of a group of people	0
241237972	customs	social habits or ways of living in a group	1
241417212	society	group of people bound together by the same culture	2
241417213	values	beliefs or ideals that guide the way people live	3
241417214	government	established form of ruling	4
241417215	religion	belief in God or gods; help answer questions about life's mysteries	5
241417216	Ice Age	long periods of cold that lasted millions of years	6
241417217	glaciers	great sheets of ice	7
241417218	Old Stone Age	1st stage of human life when people made tools from stone and learned how to work together to meet their needs	8
241417219	nomad	a person without a permanent home who travels in search of food	9
242975755	New Stone Age	the 5,000 year period that followed the Old Stone Age	10
242975756	civilization	a culture that has developed systems of government, religion, and learning	11
242975757	domesticate	to tame animals to make them useful to people	12
242975758	cultivate	prepare and use land for raising crops	13
242975759	specialize	to be trained to do a particular kind of work	14
242975760	artisan	a person skilled in making crafts; craftsworker	15
242975761	technology	the use of skills and tools to serve human needs	16
242975762	prehistory	the time before writing began	17
242975763	history	the record of what happened in the past	18
242975764	artifacts	objects made by people long ago	19
242975765	archaeology	the study of the remains of past cultures	20
242975766	primary sources	1st hand accounts of an event (letters, diaries, official records, belongings)	21
242975767	secondary sources	writings about past events that are based on information from primary sources	22