Duplicate of Ancient Civ. Vocabulary

An extra amount beyond what is needed

Doing something that has a single purpose

The process of building structures; or the structures that result from the process of building

preparing the land to farm and grow crops

The move from rural to urban cities

In many of these early civilizations we know that people were ___ meaning,believed in many gods

farming the land to grow plants or animals

Job is to keep written records

Rulers collected valuable resources in ____storage sites,where they could be controlled.

Define: Hierarchy

Define: Centralized

Farmers learned how to ____animals as continuing sources of milk, wool, and fertilizer.

To keep going or continue to be useful and beneficial in the future

A social structure that resemble pyramids

Define:Surplus

the process of bringing water to farmland to help grow crops

Supplying land with water

To tame or control a plant or animal so it can be used to benefit humans

Preparing the land, planting, and harvesting crops

Define: Sedentary