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Is the Ability to Write the Defining Aspect of Civilization?

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Is the Ability to Write the Defining Aspect of Civilization? Toady five billion people can read and write. That is about eighty five percent of the world?s population. If it was not for the creation of writing by the early people we would still be living like them. Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and the Chinese people all invented some type of unique writing form. Writing is a defining part in many civilizations histories.

The Earth and its People CH 1 Identifications

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Justin Park Justin Park Chapter 1: From the Origins of Agriculture to the First River-Valley Civilizations, 8000-1500 BCE (IDs and Significance) Before Civilization Civilization: an ambiguous term often used to denote more complex societies but sometimes used by anthropologists to describe any group of people sharing a set of cultural traits Culture: Socially transmitted patterns of action and expression. Material culture refers to physical objects, such as dwellings, clothing, tools, and crafts. Culture also includes arts, beliefs, knowledge, and technology History: The study of past events and changes in the development, transmission, and transformation of cultural practices

ch 2 vocab for the earth and its people

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Chapter 2 Vocab. Words Audree Co?Wed Dec 21 16:38:08 CST 2011 Civilization An ambiguous term often used to denote more complex societies but sometimes used by anthropologist to describe any group of people sharing a set of cultural traits Babylon The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia. It achieved particular eminence as the capital of the Amorite king Hammurabi in the 18th?century B.C.E. and the Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar in the 6th?century B.C.E Sumerians The people who dominated southern Mesopotamia through the end of the third millennium B.C.E. They were responsible for the creation of many fundamental elements of Mesopotamian culture- such as irrigation technology, cuneiform, and religious conceptions ? taken over by the Semitic successors Semitic

the earth and its peoples ch1 vocab

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Chapter 1 Vocab. Words Joseph Alexander?Sun May 12 01:14:58 CDT 2013 Natural Selection The biological process by which variations that enhance a population's ability to survive in a particular environment become dominant in a species over a very long periods and lead the the evolution of a new species? Evolution The biological theory that, over time, changes occurring in plants and animals, mainly as a result of natural selection and genetic mutation, result in new species. Australopithecine The several extinct species of human like primates that existed during the Pleistocene Era (Genus Australopithecus). Hominid The biological family that includes humans and human like primates. Bipedalism The ability to walk upright on two legs, characteristic of hominids Great Ice Age
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