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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| written records | difference between prehistory and history |
| farming and domestication of animals | are two major discoveries that separate old stone age from the new stone age |
| families which increase the population | effects of having a surplus of food on both the people population development of cities |
| average age of humans living in the stone age | 20-25 |
| donkeys pigs goats camel horses | were all animals that humans first domesticated |
| artisam | is a person skilled in a specific trade or craft |
| domesticate | to tame animals and breed them for human use |
| nomads | are people who move from one place to another place |
| pre-history | is the period in time BEFORE written records |
| fertile | soil is rich with nurients |
| irrigation | supplies land with water |
| oral | are stories passed down by word of mouth |
| bands | prehistoric groups or families of people |
| specialization | is the development of occupations |
| archeologist | are people who study the past and examine artifacts |
| history | are written recouds and other events of people |
| excavate | t odig up |
| homosapiens | are men who think |
| cro-magnon | means modern human beings |
| paleolithic | is a term for old stone age |
| rivers | where people mainly began to settle |
| bronze | more dourable metal |
| stone age | earliest known period of human culture |
| farming | seperates the old and the new stone age |
| surplus | is having an amount that is more than enough |
| historians | studied the past |