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Early Humans
vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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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 |