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Foy WH Ch. 2 vocab
Foy Ch. 2 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| prehistory | the time before there was writing |
| ancestor | a relative who lived in the past |
| tool | an object that has been modified to help a person accomplish a task |
| Paleolithic Era | the first part of the Stone Age; when people first used stone tools |
| society | a community of people who share a common culture |
| hunter-gatherers | people who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts to survive |
| migrate | to move to a new place |
| ice ages | long periods of freezing weather |
| land bridge | a strip of land connecting two continents |
| Mesolithic Era | the middle part of the Stone Age; marked by the creation of smaller and more complex tools |
| Neolithic Era | the New Stone Age; when people learned to make fire and tools such as saws and drills |
| domestication | the process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans |
| agriculture | farming |
| megaliths | a huge stone monument |