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This 21-card set covers vocabulary related to ancient civilizations and the development of early human societies. It includes terms for agricultural innovations, infrastructure systems like irrigation and aqueducts, architectural practices, and social concepts such as division of labor and negotiation. Use it for social studies vocabulary review or as a companion to a unit on ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, or early human civilization.

Subject:
Social Studies
Topic:
History
Grade Level:
4th Grade
Updated September 2024

Terms in This Set

  • shifts in human culture and practices that allowed for the invention and improvement of farming
  • the public works system that includes roads, bridges, irrigation, public transportation, etc
  • the art or practice of designing and constructing buildings
  • an artificial channel for moving water, typically in the form of a bridge across a valley or other gap
  • a large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply
  • a channel of moving water
  • the breakdown of work into specific task performed by different people; also considered a way to make workers more efficient
  • putting water into the soil through different systems of tubes, pumps and sprays
  • a channel dug by people; used by boats for irrigation
  • a quality that makes you keep trying to do something difficult
  • to back away from danger
  • to get
  • not guilty of a crime or other bad act
  • to choose someone to do a specific job
  • a feeling of embarrassment and shame
  • a conversation between people trying to reach an agreement
  • to come undone or fall apart
  • to follow to capture; try to accomplish
  • widespread, or affecting many people
  • will happen and can't be stopped
  • to ask someone for advice or information

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