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Prehistory vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Nomads | People who move often from place to place |
| Artisan | A worker who is skilled in making something with their hands |
| Civilization | A complex society with cities,a central government, and workers who specialize in certain jobs leading to social class |
| Hunter-gatherers | People who hunt animals and gather plants for food |
| Division of labor | An arrangement in which each worker specializes in a particular job or task |
| Homo sapiens | Humans |
| Domestication | The taming/development of animals or plants for human use |
| Social class | A group or class that is made up of people with similar backgrounds, wealth, and ways of living |
| Cuneform | The world's first system of writing |
| Dialect | A regional variety of a language |
| Scribe | A writer |
| Hominid | An early human-like creature |
| Prehistory | A period of time before written records |
| History | Written and recorded events of people |
| Commercial agriculture | A type of farming in which farmers produce food to sell |
| Subsistent agriculture | A type of farming in which farmers grow just enough food to provide for themselves and their own families |
| Agriculture | Raising plants and animals for human use |
| Surplus | More of something than is needed |
| Irrigation | A way of supplying water to an area of land |
| Fertile | Land or soil that contains substances plants need in order to grow well |
| Archaeology | The science of examining bones, tools, structures, and other objects to learn about past peoples and cultures |
| Agrarian | Related to farm |
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