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Social Studies
Chp 4 review
Term | Definition |
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prehistory | the time before there was writing |
ancestor | a relative who lived in the past |
Homo Erectus | upright man; appeared in Africa 2-1.5 million years ago and learned how to control fire |
migrate | to move |
land bridge | a strip of land connecting 2 continents |
ice ages | a freezing time |
neolithic revolution | the shift from food gathering to food producing |
agriculture | farming |
magaliths | huge stones used as monuments |
domestication | the process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans |
stone age | during a period of time where the first humans and their ancestors lived |
mammoth | a large extinct elephant |
Mary Leakey | an archaeologists who made important discoveries about prehistory |
distribute | to divide among a group of people |
anthropologist | a person who studies humans' pas tand present |
chopper | a short ax with a large blade |