Week Two: Foundations of Civilization

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This week we will begin our lessons on ancient civilizations.  We will study man from his very beginnings as hunters and gatherers up to the stages when civilizations were born.

Your vocabulary words for this week are:
  1. prehistory
  2. artifact
  3. paleolithic period
  4. neolithic period
  5. neolithic revolution
  6. civilization
  7. polytheistic
  8. city-state
  9. scribe
  10. empire
You will have a change to work on your vocabulary notebook in class each day.  It will be due on FRIDAY this week.  You will also have a quiz on these words on FRIDAY.

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