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Early Humans
vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| agriculture | the raising of crops and livestock for food or for other products that are useful to humans |
| artifact | objects made by humans, such as tools or weapons |
| civilization | complex society with cities, organized government, art, religion, class divisions and a writing system |
| culture | beliefs, customs, practices, and behavior of a particular nation or group of people |
| domesticate | to tame animals and plants for human use |
| hunter-gatherer | early humans that survived by hunting small animals and gathering plants |
| ice age | a period of time during which surface temperatures dropped significantly and huge ice sheets spread out over the world |
| migration | movement of people from one place to another |
| Neolithic Era | New Stone Age |
| nomad | people who move from place to place with the seasons in search of food |
| Paleolithic Era | Old Stone Age; era which tools were first developed |
| prehistory | time before written records |
| specialization | assignment of tasks so that each worker performs fewer functions more frequently |